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THOMAS AQUINAS (ca 1225-1274, Saint). Expositio postilla in Job. Esslingen: Conrad Fyner, 1474.
Chancery 2o (292 x 195 mm). Collation: [14; 2-910 10-118 126+1]. 107 leaves. 42 lines. Gothic type 1:96. Capital spaces. Lombard initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes supplied in red. (Small closed marginal tear on first leaf, final leaf reinfored at gutter and with small marginal repair, some unobtrusive worming at end catching a few letters.) 18th-century English red straight-grained morocco gilt, in the style of Roger Payne (very slight wear at extremities). Provenance: Michael Wodhull 1740-1816, (ownership inscription and purchase information dated 21 Oct. 1800 in ink on front free endpaper) sold Sotheby's 21 January 1886, lot 2567. -- Charles Thomas-Stanford (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate, purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia 23 July 1942) -- donated to SMS 27 July 1942.
FIRST EDITION, by the only fifteenth-century printer active in Esslingen. Feyner's press was active in that city between 1473 and 1477, after which he established the first printing shop in Urach. Feyner's type must have come from Strassburg, and a group of approximately 12 editions previously assigned to Fyner in Esslingen were in fact printed by Heinrich Eggestein in Strassburg. The preliminary table, printed on a different paper stock from the text, may have printed later, as it appears to have been issued with only a portion of the edition. BMC II, 513 (IB.8919); CIBN T-137; H *1397; Oates 1141; Pr 2461; Goff T-236.
Chancery 2o (292 x 195 mm). Collation: [14; 2-910 10-118 126+1]. 107 leaves. 42 lines. Gothic type 1:96. Capital spaces. Lombard initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes supplied in red. (Small closed marginal tear on first leaf, final leaf reinfored at gutter and with small marginal repair, some unobtrusive worming at end catching a few letters.) 18th-century English red straight-grained morocco gilt, in the style of Roger Payne (very slight wear at extremities). Provenance: Michael Wodhull 1740-1816, (ownership inscription and purchase information dated 21 Oct. 1800 in ink on front free endpaper) sold Sotheby's 21 January 1886, lot 2567. -- Charles Thomas-Stanford (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate, purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia 23 July 1942) -- donated to SMS 27 July 1942.
FIRST EDITION, by the only fifteenth-century printer active in Esslingen. Feyner's press was active in that city between 1473 and 1477, after which he established the first printing shop in Urach. Feyner's type must have come from Strassburg, and a group of approximately 12 editions previously assigned to Fyner in Esslingen were in fact printed by Heinrich Eggestein in Strassburg. The preliminary table, printed on a different paper stock from the text, may have printed later, as it appears to have been issued with only a portion of the edition. BMC II, 513 (IB.8919); CIBN T-137; H *1397; Oates 1141; Pr 2461; Goff T-236.