Order Nr. 61917 TITLES OF THE FIRST BOOKS FROM THE EARLIEST PRESSES ESTABLISHED IN DIFFERENT CITIES, TOWNS, AND MONASTERIES IN EUROPE, BEFORE THE END OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, WITH BRIEF NOTES UPON THEIR PRINTERS. Rush C. Hawkins.

TITLES OF THE FIRST BOOKS FROM THE EARLIEST PRESSES ESTABLISHED IN DIFFERENT CITIES, TOWNS, AND MONASTERIES IN EUROPE, BEFORE THE END OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, WITH BRIEF NOTES UPON THEIR PRINTERS.

  • (Mansfield Centre: Martino Publishing, 1999).
  • 4to.
  • cloth.
  • xxxii, 143, (3) pages.
  • ISBN: 157898193x

Price: $75.00  other currencies

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Reprint of the 1884 first edition, which was limited to 300 numbered copies and was published in New York by J.W. Bouton (Besterman 5033; St. Bride 5153). Lightly soiled, else a near fine copy. With two frontispieces and 25 plates. A study of the first books printed in various places in Europe and England. Hawkins was a prolific collector of rare books whose goal was to collect a copy of the first book printed in each of the 238 places where printing existed before 1500. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included.

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