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From the private collection of Ernst Weil.
Of great rarity.''This work has been praised by .. Morison as 'one of the finest books of the period, superior to any book produced this side of the Alps'. It contains.. specimens of italic, and French secretary; alphabets of decorative initials, of black letters, and of roman small letters and capitals.'' (B.Wolpe in his chapter on Beauchesne in A.S.Osley's Scribes and Sources, 1980). Wolpe gives Beauchesne's date of birth as 'the end of the fourth decade of the sixteenth century', and the 1550 Paris edition of Le Tresor recorded by several bibliographers is undoubtedly a ghost. The London 1570 edition of a work by Beauchesne [STC 6445.5] is printed from an entirely independent series of blocks
From the private collection of Ernst Weil.
Of great rarity.''This work has been praised by .. Morison as 'one of the finest books of the period, superior to any book produced this side of the Alps'. It contains.. specimens of italic, and French secretary; alphabets of decorative initials, of black letters, and of roman small letters and capitals.'' (B.Wolpe in his chapter on Beauchesne in A.S.Osley's Scribes and Sources, 1980). Wolpe gives Beauchesne's date of birth as 'the end of the fourth decade of the sixteenth century', and the 1550 Paris edition of Le Tresor recorded by several bibliographers is undoubtedly a ghost. The London 1570 edition of a work by Beauchesne [STC 6445.5] is printed from an entirely independent series of blocks