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Subject(s)

• Printing—Specimens [Browse]

Comp

• Ege, Otto F. [Browse]

Printer

• Wendelin, of Speier, -1477? [Browse]
• Jenson, Nicolas, approximately 1420-1480 [Browse]
• Strata, Antonius de, active 1479-1492 [Browse]
• Piasi, Piero de, active 15th century [Browse]
• Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514 [Browse]
• Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515 [Browse]
• Kerver, Thielmann, -1522 [Browse]
• Notary, Julian, active 1496-1520 [Browse]
• Froben, Johann, 1460?-1527 [Browse]
• Rusconi, Elisabetta, active 1526-1527 [Browse]
• Froben, Hieronymus, 1501-1563 [Browse]
• Estienne, Robert, 1503?-1559 [Browse]
• Turnèbe, Adrien, 1512-1565 [Browse]
• Oporinus, Joannes, 1507-1568 [Browse]
• Giolito de' Ferrari, Gabriele [Browse]
• Cawood, John, 1514-1572 [Browse]
• Petri, Heinrich, 1508-1579 [Browse]
• Norton, John, -1612 [Browse]
• Bishop, George, -1611 [Browse]
• Newbery, Ralph, -1604 [Browse]
• Barker, Robert, -1645 [Browse]
• Baskerville, John, 1706-1775 [Browse]
• Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 [Browse]
• Bodoni, Giambattista, 1740-1813 [Browse]
• Kelmscott Press [Browse]
• Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.) [Browse]
• Doves Press [Browse]
• Ashendene Press [Browse]
• Bremer Presse [Browse]

Book designer

• Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957 [Browse]

Notes

• Title from "Annotated chronological index."
• Publication information from Chalmers, Checklist, in Disbound and dispersed : the leaf book considered. Chicago : Caxton Club, c2005.
• Forty mounted leaves, with annotated chronological index, boxed.
• "Deluxe edition limited to fifty numbered sets . . ."--Label inside cover of box.
• GAX copy: No. 26.

Contents

• Manuscript leaves. Koran / Mohammed. Manuscript written on paper in Cairo, 1122 A.D.
• The Vulgate Bible / St. Jerome. Dominican manuscript written on vellum in Paris, ca. 1240
• Ethics [in Latin] / Aristotle. Manuscript written on paper in Erfurt, 1365
• History of Rome / Livy. Manuscript written on vellum in Italy, 1436
• Book of hours. Illuminated manuscript, written on vellum in France ca. 1460
• Commentary on the Sentences / Thomas Aquinas. Manuscript written on vellum in Italy, 1470.
• Incunabula leaves. On duty / Cicero. Venice : Wendelin de Spire, 1472
• Lives of the philosophers / Laertius. Venice : Nicolas Jenson, 1475
• The golden legend / Voragine. Venice : Antonio de Strata, 1480
• Divine comedy / Dante. Venice : Petrus de Piasio, 1491
• Nuremberg Chronicle / Schedel. Nuremberg : Anton Koberger, 1493.
• Leaves from 16th century imprints. History / Herodotus. Venice : Aldus Manutius, 1502
• The Justinian code. Paris : Thielman Kerver, 1512
• Chronicles of England. London : Julian Notary, 1515
• Natural history / Pliny. Basle : Johann Froben, 1525
• Metamorphoses / Ovid. Venice : Helizabeth de Rusconibus, 1527
• Adages / Erasmus. Basle : Jerome Froben, 1528
• Lives of the twelve Caesars / Suetonius. Paris : Robert Estienne, 1540
• Six tragedies / Aeschylus. Paris : Adrian Turnebus, 1552
• Anatomy / Vesalius. Basle : Johannes Oporinus, 1555
• Sonnets and canzoni / Petrarch. Venice : Gabriel Giolito, 1559
• Ship of fools / Barclay. London : John Cawood, 1570
• Lives of illustrious men / Jovius. Basle : H. Petri, 1577
• The writings of Hippocrates. Venice : Lucantonio Giunta, 1585
• History of plants / Gerard. London : John Norton, 1597
• Voyages / Hakluyt. London : George Bishop, Rolfe Newberrie and Robert Barker, 1598-1600.
• Leaves from 17th-20th century imprints. The works of Chaucer. London : Adam Islip, 1602
• Don Quixote / Cervantes. Madrid : Juan de la Cuesta, 1608
• King James Authorized version. London : Robert Barker, 1611
• The advancement of learning ; The new Atlantis ; On the wisdom of the ancients / Bacon. London : John Haviland, 1638
• The fourth folio / Shakespeare. London : H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685
• Noetica and ethica / Johnson. Philadelphia : B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1752
• Dictionary / Johnson. London : W. Strahan, 1755
• Poems / Virgil. Birmingham : John Baskerville, 1757
• The seasons / Thomson. Parma : Giambattista Bodoni, 1794
• Beowulf. London : Kelmscott Press, 1895
• Essays / Montaigne. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press, 1902-1904
• Paradise regained, Samson Agonistes and other poems / Milton. London : Doves Press, 1905
• The decameron / Boccaccio. Chelsea : Ashendene Press, 1920
• Iliad and Odyssey / Homer. Munich : Bremer Press, 1923.

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References

Chalmers, J. P. Checklist of leaf books, 98

OCLC

79479405

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