Catalogue of the splendid, curious, and extensive library of the late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart. Part the first [-third] ... Which will be sold by auction by Mr. Evans ... on ... May 11, etc / [Sir Mark Masterman Sykes].

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[1824]
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Credit: Catalogue of the splendid, curious, and extensive library of the late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart. Part the first [-third] ... Which will be sold by auction by Mr. Evans ... on ... May 11, etc / [Sir Mark Masterman Sykes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [19] blue morocco, MCCCCLXVII, —*4* This very rare Book is tut Tuirp Propuction OF THE Press ofr THE MonasTERY AT SOUBIACO. ae ** This Edition is without date or place; but the name of the Printer is satisfactorily ascertained from the preliminary Epistle of the Editor. He informs. us that HE COMMITTED THE Manuscript “ Dis- crETO Viro Jonannt MENTELIN INCOLE ARGE- TENESI ImPRESSORIE ARTIS Moro.” Panzer esteems this either the first or second production of the Strasburg Press. By the general Suffrage of Bib- liographers, this edition is supposed to have pre- ceded the year 1465. In the Preliminary Epistle the Reader is told he may easily make references ‘© per penam in margibs nigro vl rubro colore.” A certain proof of the work being a production of the Infancy of Printing. Even Fust’s Edition has these references, Curysostomi Homitia Surer Matuevm, In Latinum Aoife? Mentelin’s Press. In Earl Spencer’s Copy the Rubri- cator has added the Date of “‘ 1466 Argent.” It is remarkable that Mr. Cracherode’s Copy of the First Work (St. Austin) has the same date added by the Rubricator. The Two Works are bound together in the Original Wooden Binding, and are REMARKABLY FINE COPIES. early Edition without date, place or name of the Printer ; but Earl Spencer has ascertained that it is ‘‘ printed in the Characters used by Nicholas Ketelaer and Gherard de Leempt at Utrecht in the year 1473.” See a Description of this Edition in Bibliotheca Spenceriana, vol. 1, pages 188, 189, and 190. THIRD DAY’S SALE. Octavo et Infra. printed, = > = 1822