Printing in the Western world began with Johann Gutenberg and his monumental Bible of 1455. The invention of printing from movable type changed the production of books from being written out by hand, one at a time, to printed editions as we know them today. This led to a vast increase in the publication of books, encompassing a multitude of both religious and secular subjects. Books printed in the fifteenth century, known as incunabula (a term which refers to "the cradle" of printing), are prized as artifacts of the infancy of printing ...
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London: Maggs Bros. Ltd. 1938. Quarto. Catalogue No. 656. Edges darkened and worn, with some loss and soiling, and binding loosening. Good. More
Los Angeles: Department of Special Collections, University Research Library, UCLA, 1992. Quarto. Fine stapled packet. More
Berlin: Wiegendruck-Gesellschaft, 1936. Large octavo. Edges chipped, some splitting to spine and soiling, else very good in plain cream wrappers. More
NY: Grolier Club, 1887. 12mo. Printed at the DeVinne Press. Wrappers lightly soiled and darkened at edges, else near fine. More
NY: Grolier Club, 1968. Quarto. 66pp., (6)ff. From an edition of 1650 copies, this is one of 1500 hardcover copies. Fine in gilt-stamped tan cloth with original glassine dust wrapper, which shows some splits at edges. More
Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1925-1935. Quarto. Seven volumes. lxiii, 682; xi, 786; xxxiv, 754; viii, 694; x, 742; viii, 854; 287pp. The first seven volumes of this exhaustive catalog of incunabula, which were printed before the interruption of World War II. Volumes 1-3, 5-6 bound in matching blue cloth; volume 4 unbound;... More
London: Maggs Bros. Ltd. 1930. Quarto. Catalogue No. 533. Edges darkened and worn, with some soiling, and binding loosening. Very good. More
Paris: Les Éditions G. Van Oest, 1928. Large quarto. Text followed by 78 plates. Near fine in printed wrappers that show some wear and soiling. More
London: Holland Press, 1961. Two quarto volumes, paginated continuously. (600)pp.; 601-1096, (lxx)pp. One of 250 copies. Illustrated in black & white throughout. A reprint of the 1910 first edition. Fine in gilt-stamped green cloth. More
Oxford: Bibliographical Society, 1943. Small quarto. 143pp. Spine faded and edges worn, else very good in gray wrappers. Corrigenda laid in. More
Boston, Massachusetts: Trustees of the Public Library, 1935. Quarto. Very fine in green wrapper, pages lightly tanned. More
London: Bibliographical Society, 1954. Folio. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards show minor edgewear, else fine, with chipped and worn dust wrapper. More
NY: Bibliographical Society of America, 1972. Quarto. 112pp. Minor edgewear and fading of spine, else fine in gilt-stamped red cloth. No dust jacket. More
Urbana: University of Illinois, 1927; 1952. Two large octavo volumes. The first volume contains an appendix with Jacob Schenk's translation of the Encheiridion, published in Basel in 1534, and a facsimile reproduction from the copy in the British Museum. The Supplement is edited by Marian Harman and includes a preliminary... More
Venice: Heironymous Scotus, 1550-1551. Quarto. 75ff. Woodcut device on title page and last leaf, several geometrical text figures, two ten-line and two five-line initial capitals. A book of commentary by the sixth-century Greek philosopher Philoponus, who also went by the name John the Grammarian for his scholarship on language. Although... More
San Francisco: (Grabhorn Press), 1939. 12mo. (9)pp. One of fifty-five copies. Tipped in after the title page, the leaf features a large woodcut of John Heywood at his desk. On the window behind him, several spiders observe a fly trapped in a web. On the verso of the page are... More
NY: Brick Row Book Shop, 1936. Folio. (6), 28pp. Library Edition. Contains an original leaf from the Catholicon of 1460, whose production, as Stillwell argues in the essay within, should be credited to Johannes Gutenberg (some have argued that the second printing was achieved by Peter Schoeffer in 1469, after... More
