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[GUTENBERG]. BIBLE, Latin. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Fust, 1455].
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[GUTENBERG]. BIBLE, Latin. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Fust, 1455].
Royal 2o (389 x 286 mm). Single leaf from vol. I, fol. 42 containing chapter 28 the Holy Vestments for Aaron and his Sons and the beginning of Chapter 29 The Consecrating of the Priests. 42 lines, double column. Type: 1:140G. 2 two-line Lombard initial supplied in red and blue, headlines and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue letters, capital strokes in red. Printed on Bull's Head paper, the watermark in this half of the sheet. Tipped-in: A Noble Fragment: Being a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, with a bibliographical essay by A. Edward Newton. New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921. Dark blue morocco gilt, by Stikeman and Co. (extremities lightly rubbed); publisher's cloth folding case.
Provenance: Maria Elisabeth Augusta von Sulzbach (1721-1794), wife of Carl Theodore, Electoral Prince of the Palatinate, subsequently Electoral Prince of Bavaria; Mannheim, Hofbibliothek; Munich, Royal Library (their duplicate sale, 1832, sold for 350 guilders); Robert Curzon, Baron Zouche (1810-1873, and by descent until sold); Sotheby's 9 November 1920, lot 70, to Joseph Sabin; sold by him to; Gabriel Wells, who broke up the copy, dispersing it in single leaves, many of them accompanied by A.Edward Newton's essay, as here, and in larger fragments; Albert Steiger, donated to the Springfield Public Library.
Royal 2o (389 x 286 mm). Single leaf from vol. I, fol. 42 containing chapter 28 the Holy Vestments for Aaron and his Sons and the beginning of Chapter 29 The Consecrating of the Priests. 42 lines, double column. Type: 1:140G. 2 two-line Lombard initial supplied in red and blue, headlines and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue letters, capital strokes in red. Printed on Bull's Head paper, the watermark in this half of the sheet. Tipped-in: A Noble Fragment: Being a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, with a bibliographical essay by A. Edward Newton. New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921. Dark blue morocco gilt, by Stikeman and Co. (extremities lightly rubbed); publisher's cloth folding case.
Provenance: Maria Elisabeth Augusta von Sulzbach (1721-1794), wife of Carl Theodore, Electoral Prince of the Palatinate, subsequently Electoral Prince of Bavaria; Mannheim, Hofbibliothek; Munich, Royal Library (their duplicate sale, 1832, sold for 350 guilders); Robert Curzon, Baron Zouche (1810-1873, and by descent until sold); Sotheby's 9 November 1920, lot 70, to Joseph Sabin; sold by him to; Gabriel Wells, who broke up the copy, dispersing it in single leaves, many of them accompanied by A.Edward Newton's essay, as here, and in larger fragments; Albert Steiger, donated to the Springfield Public Library.