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BALBUS, Johannes (d.1298). Catholicon. Venice: Johannes Hamman, for Petrus Liechtenstein, 28 February 1497(/98?).
Super-chancery 2° (310x211mm). Collation: a-x8 Y6 A-I8 L-P8 Q-S6 T8 (a1 title, a2 summary preface, text, T8r colophon, printer's device (Husung 170), T8v blank). 307 (of 312, lacking a1,2, f6, g7, and T8, supplied in facsimile) leaves. 69 lines and headline, double column. Type: 1:158G (title), 9:150G (headings and headlines); 10:74G (text), 82R (capitals), printed guide-letters. Woodcut capitals of 6 sets, 2- to 8-line initials in red. (Foxing, some browning in p2-3, some marginal stains in first and final leaves.) Contemporary calf over wooden boards, blindstamped, two brass fore-edge catches (without clasps), brass center-piece and one corner piece (missing others, missing leather from head and foot of spine), title stamped in blind on upper board; an Augsburg binding, Kyriss shop 84, including stamps 1-3.
H *2266; GW 3203; BMC V, 427 (IB. 23385); Goff B-34; Pellechet 1715; IGI 1165; BSB B-20
Super-chancery 2° (310x211mm). Collation: a-x8 Y6 A-I8 L-P8 Q-S6 T8 (a1 title, a2 summary preface, text, T8r colophon, printer's device (Husung 170), T8v blank). 307 (of 312, lacking a1,2, f6, g7, and T8, supplied in facsimile) leaves. 69 lines and headline, double column. Type: 1:158G (title), 9:150G (headings and headlines); 10:74G (text), 82R (capitals), printed guide-letters. Woodcut capitals of 6 sets, 2- to 8-line initials in red. (Foxing, some browning in p2-3, some marginal stains in first and final leaves.) Contemporary calf over wooden boards, blindstamped, two brass fore-edge catches (without clasps), brass center-piece and one corner piece (missing others, missing leather from head and foot of spine), title stamped in blind on upper board; an Augsburg binding, Kyriss shop 84, including stamps 1-3.
H *2266; GW 3203; BMC V, 427 (IB. 23385); Goff B-34; Pellechet 1715; IGI 1165; BSB B-20