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LEAF FROM THE LETTERS OF ST. JEROME, FIRST PRINTED BY SIXTUS REISSINGER, ROME, C.1466-1467.|A
Published by H.M. Fletcher - Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, London and Los Angeles, 1981
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First Edition
Leaf Book (illustrator). folio. vellum spine, marbled paper over boards by Kater-Crafts Bookbinders. vi, 30, (7) pages, plus a folio leaf laid-in. With an Historical Essay by Jeremy Duquensnay Adams, and a Bibliographical Essay by John L. Sharpe III. One of 300 copies. (Leaf Book - Chalmers 170). With the original leaf loosely inserted in a pocket at the rear. The leaf has some minor dampstaining along the edges not affecting the text, else a fine leaf with an 'I' calligraphed in blue. The book is in fine condition. A proposition is set forth that the Reissinger edition of St. Jerome's letters was the first book printed in Rome. Printed by Patrick Reagh. Reissinger set up his printing firm in 1466, about the time that Sweynheim and Pannartz left Subiaco and moved to Rome. It is certainly from a very early Roman incunable, and the editio princeps of the Letters of St. Jerome, a pivotal book in the Western canon. vellum spine, marbled paper over boards by Kater-Crafts Bookbinders.
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A Leaf from the Letters of St. Jerome first printed by Sixtus Reissinger, Rome c. 1466-1467
Published by Zeitlin & Ver Brugge and H.M. Fletcher; Sixtus Reissinger, Los Angeles and London, 1981
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Folio [6], 30, [3] pp. Printed letterpress on Frankfurt Cream Paper. Historical essay by Jeremy Duquesnay Adams, bibliographical essay by John L. Sharpe III, edited by Bennett Gilbert. Contains an original leaf from the edito princeps of St. Jerome's Letters, the first book printed in Rome. 15x11, quarter-vellum and marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. Number 132 of 300 copies. A fine copy. Leaf with minor margin soiling, nice antiquarian condition.
