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FALKENSTEIN, Karl. Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst. Leipzig: Teubner, 1840. 4°. Plates, some chromolithographed. Wood-engraved illustrations (One plate heavily soiled, some spotting and browning). Contemporary green morocco, ornamented in gilt and blind (joints worn). FIRST EDITION. Provenance: Bernard Quaritch (inscription on front blank, signed and dated London, 15 Picadilly, February 2, 1887).
Bigmore & Wyman p. 211: "Falkenstein's 'History of the Art of Printing' is the most important of the works published in Germany, on the occasion of the 4th centenary of its invention. Its many facsimiles, well cut and printed in the tints of the originals, give it a high value. Still it is not always correct in its historical data."
Quaritch's inscription reads: "This original copy of 'Falkenstein's Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst', containing my name in the List of Subscribers (I subscribed in 1838-39) I exchanged for a copy of a later issue in Mr. W. A. J. Amhert's Library." De Ricci, in English Collectors of Books & Manuscripts, p. 158, observes: "The earliest literary record I have as yet discovered concerning this Napoleon of booksellers is the name of one 'Herr Quaritsch, B., Buch-handler-Gehülfe in Berlin' who in 1840 appears as a subscriber to Falkenstein's Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst.
Bigmore & Wyman p. 211: "Falkenstein's 'History of the Art of Printing' is the most important of the works published in Germany, on the occasion of the 4th centenary of its invention. Its many facsimiles, well cut and printed in the tints of the originals, give it a high value. Still it is not always correct in its historical data."
Quaritch's inscription reads: "This original copy of 'Falkenstein's Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst', containing my name in the List of Subscribers (I subscribed in 1838-39) I exchanged for a copy of a later issue in Mr. W. A. J. Amhert's Library." De Ricci, in English Collectors of Books & Manuscripts, p. 158, observes: "The earliest literary record I have as yet discovered concerning this Napoleon of booksellers is the name of one 'Herr Quaritsch, B., Buch-handler-Gehülfe in Berlin' who in 1840 appears as a subscriber to Falkenstein's Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst.