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Printing History: Leaf Book. Letters from the 15th Century: On the Origins of the Kelmscott Chaucer Typeface.
McMinnville, OR: Pirages, 2019.
First edition, limited issue, octavo; copy number 84 of 165 total, this being one of 84 specially bound in cloth after a Morris design and including five folio leaves of various sizes, one from the Kelmscott Chaucer with six- and three- line initials, and the remaining from the presses of four German printers from the 1470's: Peter Shoeffer, Johann Mentelin, Gunther Zainer, and Anton Koeberger, all preserved in mylar sleeves and housed in a separate compartment; together with the cloth volume in the publisher's linen clamshell case with printed spine label; text volume: 9 x 6 in.
