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GUILIELMUS CARTHUSIENSIS. Sermones super orationem dominicam. Paris: Ulrich Gering and Berthold Rembolt, 1494.
Super-chancery 8° (138 x 94mm). Gothic type, woodcut. (Without last blank, a little light marginal dampstaining in last quire.) Modern vellum over wooden boards, gilt edges, title on spine. Provenance: early owner's inscription on title.
The woodcut, Rembolt's first device, depicts two figures, which may, according to Claudin (Hist. de l'Imp. I. 100) represent the partnership of Gering and Rembolt. While Gering printed his first book in France c. 1470, it was not until his collaboration with Rembolt that he used a distictive device, albeit one that did not bear his own name. The first dated work the device appears in is the Horae of 16 December 1494. The Sermones is not so precisely dated. However, as the headlines begin only from the second quire, it has been suggested that this is the first book of the press to be supplied with them and so is earlier than the Paraldus, dated 30 June 1494. HC *8219; BMC VIII, 29; GW 11904; Goff G-635.
Super-chancery 8° (138 x 94mm). Gothic type, woodcut. (Without last blank, a little light marginal dampstaining in last quire.) Modern vellum over wooden boards, gilt edges, title on spine. Provenance: early owner's inscription on title.
The woodcut, Rembolt's first device, depicts two figures, which may, according to Claudin (Hist. de l'Imp. I. 100) represent the partnership of Gering and Rembolt. While Gering printed his first book in France c. 1470, it was not until his collaboration with Rembolt that he used a distictive device, albeit one that did not bear his own name. The first dated work the device appears in is the Horae of 16 December 1494. The Sermones is not so precisely dated. However, as the headlines begin only from the second quire, it has been suggested that this is the first book of the press to be supplied with them and so is earlier than the Paraldus, dated 30 June 1494. HC *8219; BMC VIII, 29; GW 11904; Goff G-635.
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