A noble fragment : being a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, 1450-1455 / with a bibliographical essay by A. Edward Newton.

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Book
Language
  • English
  • Latin
Published/​Created
New York : Gabriel Wells, 1921 (New York : William Edwin Rudge)
Description
[8] p., [1] leaf ; 41 cm.

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Notes
  • Designed by Bruce Rogers.
  • Cover title.
  • Princeton copy 2 in slipcase.
  • Princeton copy 2 (leaf a) copy has leaf from the book of Ecclesiasticus, chap. VII-X:30. Goff B-526.
  • Princeton copy 1 has leaf from Ecclesiasticus XXIII-XXV, beginning: usq[ue] ad finem. Omnis homo ...
  • Princeton copy 3 shelf-list has collation: 4 pp. (essay only without leaf of Bible) 41 x 30 cm.
With
Princeton copy 3 shelf-list has penciled note: In box with Johnson essay.
Provenance
  • Princeton copy 3 shelf-list has no date of acquisition or name of vendor.
  • 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.
References
  • Hain 3031
  • GW 420
  • Schwenke, P. Johannes Gutenbergs 42-zeilige Bibel, p. 17 (leaf from no. 37)
  • Grolier. Bruce Rogers, 301
  • Warde, F. Bruce Rogers, 156
Place name(s)
Germany Mainz.
Other title(s)
Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, 1450-1455.
In
Multi-title collection including Gutenberg and the Book of books, with bibliographical notes, reproductions of specimen pages and a listing of known copies, and 1 other(s).
LCCN
52051756
OCLC
4628780
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