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(BIBLE IN LATIN.) [Complete color facsimile of the 42-line Vulgate printed by Johann Gutenberg circa 1455.] 2 volumes. Folio, 448x302 mm, black morocco handsomely gilt with panel design on covers, black morocco doublures with onlaid red silk crucifix, red silk endleaves; contents immaculate; black morocco slipcases matching the cover design. (Paterson, N.J.: Pageant Books, 1961)
one of 1000 sets of a facsimile based on the 1911 Insel Verlag edition reproducing richly illuminated copies at libraries in Fulda and Berlin. The bindings are unsigned but believed to be a unique deluxe set by the firm of A. Horowitz & Sons, which produced the original edition bindings for the Pageant facsimile.
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