[The book beautiful through nine centuries : a group of 18 original leaves, each illustrating a superb achievement in the history of the book / Otto Ege?].

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Doves Press
Other Authors: Wendelin, of Speier, -1477?, Mentelin, Johann, approximately 1410-1478, Jenson, Nicolas, approximately 1420-1480, Zainer, Günther, -1478, Koberger, Anton, approximately 1440-1513, Wolgemut, Michael, 1434-1519, Manuzio, Aldo, 1547-1597, Baskerville, John, 1706-1775, Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (Thomas James), 1840-1922, Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957
Language:Multiple languages
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [Otto Ege?], [1940s?]
Subjects:
Leaf books > Specimens.
Illumination of books and manuscripts > Specimens.
Printing > History > Specimens.
Rotunda type. > Schwabacher type.
Genre:
Specimens.
Local Note:
MSU copy contains 19 specimens (not 18 as stated in bookdealer description) numbered 1-19. Specimens are identified with captions in pencil.
Physical Description:17 matted specimens : color illustrations ; in two portfolia 49 cm
Variant Title:
Group of 18 original leaves, each illustrating a superb achievement in the history of the book. [Other title]
Format: Book
Contents:
  • #1 1150 A.D. Italy Gospel Lectionary. Carolingian bookhand
  • #2, 1285 A.D. France (Beauvais). Missal leaf.
  • #3, 1353 A.D. Italy. Perugia. Missal leaf.
  • #4, 1230 A.D. France. Vulgate Bible.
  • #5 1450 A.D. France. Book of Hours. Benedictine Order
  • #6, 1470 A.D. Italy. Humanistic bookhand. St. Thomas Aquinas' Commentary.
  • #7, 1471 A.D. Italy (Venice). Valerius Maximus, Printed by Wendelin de Spira first printer in Venice.
  • #8, 1472 A.D. Germany (Strassburg) Postilla Super Psalterium, printed by John Mentelin.
  • #9, 1495 A.D. Italy (Venice). Lives of the philosophers, printed by Nicolas Jenson in his famous roman type.
  • #10, 1476 A.D. Germany, Augsburg. Pantheologia. Printed by Gunther Zainer, Augsburg's first printer.
  • #11, 1476 A.D. Italy, Venice. Jenson's first Bible, Rotunda type.
  • #12, 1483 A.D. Germany (Nuremberg), Koberger's only German Bible. Schwabacher type.
  • #13, 1490 A.D. Germany. Vulgate Bible. Book of Kings.
  • #14, 1500 A.D. Germany. Missal leaf. Batarde book hand.
  • #15, 1493 A.D. Germany (Nuremburg). Nuremberg Chronicle printed by Anton Koberger, woodcuts by Dürer [unclear] Wohlgemut.
  • #16, 1578 A.D. Italy (Venice) First complete printed Greek Bible. Aldus.
  • #17, 1765 A.D. England (Cambridge). The famous "Cambridge Bible" printed by John Baskerville.
  • #18, 1903 A.D. England (London). Doves Press Bible printed by Cobden-Sanderson.
  • #19, 1935 A.D. England (Oxford). Oxford Lectern Bible. Printed by Bruce Rogers.