vi,119 pp. Woodcut title page vignette, two head pieces, two tail pieces, one initial letter and one full engraving in the text. (4to) 21.2x15.3 cm (8½x6"), contemporary vellum, title page printed in black and red. First edition. A specious scholarly treatise on the first printer at Strasbourg, Johann Mentelin (died 1478), apparently written by a descendant, who used fabricated documents to support claims that Mentelin, not Gutenberg, was the inventor of printing - claims that Bigmore & Wyman remark are a "shameful falsification of history." Mentelin was an important German printer who flourished between 1458-78, but not the first. The dedication to antiquarian and scholar Bernardus A. Malinkrot, who died in 1644, is probably also a ruse to give the text legitimacy.
vi,119 pp. Woodcut title page vignette, two head pieces, two tail pieces, one initial letter and one full engraving in the text. (4to) 21.2x15.3 cm (8½x6"), contemporary vellum, title page printed in black and red. First edition. A specious scholarly treatise on the first printer at Strasbourg, Johann Mentelin (died 1478), apparently written by a descendant, who used fabricated documents to support claims that Mentelin, not Gutenberg, was the inventor of printing - claims that Bigmore & Wyman remark are a "shameful falsification of history." Mentelin was an important German printer who flourished between 1458-78, but not the first. The dedication to antiquarian and scholar Bernardus A. Malinkrot, who died in 1644, is probably also a ruse to give the text legitimacy.
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