Gutenberg and the Strasbourg documents of 1439. An interpretation … to which has been appended the text of the documents in the original Alsatian, the French of Laborde, and Modern German and English translations. Sketches by Fritz Kredel

[Fuhrmann, Otto W.]

Verlag: Press of the Woolly Whale, New York, 1940

Beschreibung

First edition limited to 660 copies, lg. 8vo, pp. x, [2], 260, [1]; initials and illustrations by Fritz Kredel; fine copy in orig. red buckram, t.e.g., gilt medallion on upper cover, maroon morocco label lettered in gilt on spine, publisher's slipcase with short split at one joint; three different original prospectus are laid in, as well as a pro-forma letter signed in ink by Melbert B. Cary, Jr., proprietor of the Press of the Woolly Whale, informing the original subscriber (in this case, Emerson Wulling, proprietor of the Sumac Press) that the subscription price has risen from $5 to $7.50. The records of a law suit involving Gutenberg which constitute our earliest information about the formative period in the invention of printing, in the decade prior to Gutenberg's removal to Mainz where he subsequently printed his famous 42-line Bible. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 19511

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Titel: Gutenberg and the Strasbourg documents of ...

Verlag: Press of the Woolly Whale, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1940

Einband: Hardcover

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: 1. Auflage