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BALBUS, JOHANN. Single leaf from a paper copy of the Catholicon, with entries from Occidentalis to Offella. Gothic type, 66 lines, 2 columns, with Galliziani watermark. Rubricated. Folio, 368x282 mm. [Mainz: Printer of the Catholicon, not before 1469]
first edition of a 13th-century Latin glossary, the first dictionary to appear in print, and the first book to identify its place of printing. Hain-Copinger 2254; GW 3182; BMC I, 39; Goff B20; ISTC ib00020000. The leaf is laid in the recessed rear cover panel of a copy of Margaret Bingham Stillwell's Gutenberg and the Catholicon of 1460. Folio, original cloth by Krumin; contents immaculate; cloth dust jacket; publisher's cloth slipcase. New York: Edmond Byrne Hackett, Brick Row Book Shop, 1936. With a 1936 TLS from Hackett acknowledging payment for this copy.
