Sales catalogue 402: Maggs Bros

Date:
1921
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/7
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 402: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Jrance—Strassburg, Johann [Reinhard] Criininger—coxz:nued. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF HORACE. 65 HORATIUS. ; Opera. Cum quibusdam annotationibus. (Annotated by Jacob Locher). Black Letter, DOUBLE COLUMNS, 74 LINES OF COMMENTARY SURROUND- ING THE TEXT AND HEAD-LINE TO A FULL PAGE. ‘WITH WOODCUT ON TITLE OF LOCHER AT HIS DESK AND 1560 FINE WOODCUTS THROUGHOUT THE VOLUME, MOST OF WHICH ARE COMPOSITE. CAPITAL SPACES. Folio. Calf blind tooled, r. e. Strassburg, Johann [Reinhard] Griininger, 12th March, 1408. £22 10s ‘F'aIS EDITION, WHICH WAS PUBLISHED BY JACOB LOCHER, MAY BE COUNTED AS AN EDITIO PRINCEPS, AS IT WAS NOT PUBLISHED AFTER PRINTED TEXTS, BUT AFTHR MANUSCRIPTS THAT WERE FOUND. ‘The illnstrations are of great interest. Especially noteworthy are: (1) The woodcut on the second leaf representing the nine Muses: Calliope enthroned crowns the poet Horace kneeling before her. (2) Horace before Maecenas. (3) The murder of Julius Ceasar by Brutus and Cassius. (Worm hole in last few leaves.) Hain-Copinger *8898. Proctor 485. Schreiber 4240. British Museum Catalogue, vol 1, p. 112. Pellechet (Lyon) 345. ‘Onty 10 Copies OF THIS FINE ILLUSTRATED. CLASSIC IN U.S.A. (accorpINe ro CENsus). Printer of 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg.—A.D. 1483. 66 VERDENA (Johannes de). Sermones dormi secure de tempore. Black Letter, DOUBLE COLUMNS, 47 LINES TO A FULL PAGE, WITH PRINTED HEAD-LINES, SPACES LEFT FOR CAPITALS WITH GUIDE-LETTERS. THE CAPITALS, INITIAL STROKES AND PARAGRAPH-MARKS ARE BEAUTIFULLY ‘SUPPLIED IN RED. Foho. Bound in modern sprinkled calf, gilt, crest in gold on covers, £. e. Strassburg (Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg), 1485. : £10 10s A large and clean copy containing the blank leaf which has been bound in before the title. Hain *15974. Copinger (Part 1) gives Johannes Griininger as the printer, but in British Museum Catalorns, vol. 1, p. 133, the book is ascribed to the “ printer ef the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg.”
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