(LEAF BOOK) Hall Edwin Sweynheym Pannartz and the Origins o

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(LEAF BOOK.) Hall, Edwin. Sweynheym & Pannartz and the Origins of Printing in Italy. German Technology and Italian Humanism in Renaissance Rome. Title-page and chapter initials printed in three colors. 8vo, plum morocco-backed marbled boards; leaf and volume housed together in a folding cloth case with printed paper spine label. Printed by Bird & Bull Press for Phillip J. Pirages. McMinnville, Oregon, 1991

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number 2 of 275 copies with an original leaf from the 1471 printing of nicholas de lyra's postilla super totam bibliam (HC 10363, Goff-N131, BMC IV 14). This leaf measures 368x260 mm; 14 1/2x10 1/2 inches, sheet, wide margins and with a red initial E, and pencil-numbered 30. Sweynheym and Pannartz were the earliest printers outside Germany.