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Summary:

60 leaves taken from books printed in The Netherlands, France, Spain, and Great Britain between 1460 and 1500, with information on type fonts as used by the early printers.

Author/Creator:

Haebler, Konrad, 1857-1946, author

Contributors:

Barbey, André, translator

Weiss & Co. (Munich, Germany), publisher

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Westeuropäische Wiegendruck in Original-Typenbeispielen [by Haebler, K.] (English

Subjects:

Incunabula — Europe — Bibliography

Incunabula — Specimens

Printing — Europe — History — Origin and antecedents

Type and type-founding — History

Europe — Imprints — 15th century

1400-1499

Printing

Type and type-founding

Incunabula

Europe

Genres:

Leaf books — Germany — 20th century

Incunabula — Europe

History

Specimens

Bibliographies

General Notes:

Issued in portfolio. The plates are mounted and inlaid in paper mats, with mounted descriptive labels.
The text consists of a list of plates, arranged under country alphabetically by place of printing, with a short history of the early printing in each country followed by descriptive notes on each specimen, giving information about the printer and the character of the types.
"This English edition appears in one issue of 100 copies numbered by hand."
Purchase; 2018.
Housed in publisher's tan cloth-covered portfolio, with black titles.
Libraries' copy is number 79 of 100.

Physical Description:

1 portfolio (60 mounted plates) ; 55 cm + 1 textual volume (58 pages)

Physical Characteristics:

55 cm

Call Numbers:

Z1033.L4 H343 1928

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

33021035

OCLC Numbers:

4574260