Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
March 1909
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/259
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / ‘yf the Frorist’s Feast in Norwich, May 3, 1631, FIRST EDITION (dedicated to Nicholas Bacon of Gillingham, and the Society of Florists), margins of title cut close, short copy, half bound (B. M. duplicate sold 1787), RARE Jhon Knox... upon the death of that moste Verteous and moste famous King Edward the VI ...in whiche confession the sayde others to be the cause of the awaye takinge of that moste godly prince, etc. black letter, ORIGINAL EDITION (19 Z/.) some margins cut into, brown morocco extra, g. e. by F. Bedford, VERY RARE of Sainct Peter .. July .. 1554 |Lond. H. Sutton] INSTITUTIONIBUS, adversus Gentes lib. VII; De Ira Dei, ete. Ut. rom. (with some Greek types), long lines, 36 to a full page, without marks ; 184 ll. including 9 Ul. of the table of rubrics followed by a blank, and the 2 Ul. of errata; rubricated in blue and red, with ORNAMENTAL INITIALS and ornamental pen-letters with marginal decorations ; headings of divisions written in in red ink (Hain *9806; Sunderland Cat. 7167), crushed crimson morocco super extra, filets, g. e. by F. Bedford, FINE copy (the last book bound by F. Bedford) sm. folio Sub ano dai mMcocccLhxv Pontificatus Pauli Pape fH, anno ecus secudo. Indtctioé xut die Vero anpenultia mensis Octobris in Venerabili Monasterio Sublacensi, Deo Gratius (Per Conradum Sweynheym et Arnoldum Pannartz), 1465 EDITIO PRINCEPS OF LACTANTIUS; THE First BooK PRINTED IN ITALY, and the Second Book for which Greek type was cast. The Greek types for the Greek quotations were used irregularly in this book up to fol. 19, some blank spaces occurring in the text intended for their use, after which they are used on every occasion. So fine and perfect a copy as this of a most important and interesting typographical production, is not likely again to occur for sale by auction. tions in Greek type), long lines, 38 to a full page, 219 Ul. (the first blank), without marks (Hain *9807), 3 large painted ornamental initials, the first heightened in gold with a marginal decoration, old russia gilt, an excellent copy Sweynheym et Arnoldum Pannartz (1468) Second Book issued by these famous printers after their removal from Subiaco. It differs from the first edition in having printed headings to the chapters. It is said to be the first book in which
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