Oct 24, 2013 - Sale 2327

Sale 2327 - Lot 186

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(LEAF BOOK.) Hall, Edwin. Sweynheym & Pannartz and the Origins of Printing in Italy. German Technology and Italian Humanism in Renaissance Rome. Title page printed in colors, hand-drawn initial on page 7. 8vo, plum morocco-backed marbled boards; leaf and volume housed together in a folding cloth case with printed paper spine label. Bird & Bull Press for Phillip J. Pirages, 1991

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number 19 of 275 copies with an original leaf from the 1471 printing of nicholas de lyra's postilla super totam bibliam. This leaf measures 368x260 mm; 14 1/2x10 1/2 inches, sheet, wide margins and pencil-numbered 233 on verso. Sweynheym and Pannartz were the earliest printers outside Germany.