A collection of 27 printed leaves on paper and vellum relating to early book illustration and the development of the Roman typeface, mounted in a folio album, printed various places, c.1470-1600, assembled c.1975, each exhibiting an important example of the use of Roman type, and all mounted in a folio album, the leaves and the clipped booksellers descriptions mounted one on every recto, late 20th century pigskin-backed cloth by Gray. Provenance: J.P. Foster (Gilt initials on upper cover, and armorial bookplate). A fine collection of early printed leaves, purchased in the 1960s and 1970s from English Book dealers including Fletcher, Pickering and Chatto, Charles Traylen and Alan Thomas. The collection of leaves, bound up for J.P. Foster, who had a particular interest in early printing, comprises: 1. Two leaves from Magini. Sophologium. Strassburg: c.1470. Small folio. The first Roman type to be cut. 2. Two leaves from Nicoluas de Lyra. Postilliae in Biblia. Rome: Sweynheym and Pannartz, 1471-72. Folio. Two decorated initials. 3. A conjugate pair of leaves. Plutarch. Parallellae. Venice: N. Jensen, 1478. Folio, the leaves with several wormholes. 4. Four leaves from Columna. Poliphili Hypnerotomachia. Venice: Manutius, 1545. Folio, two woodcut illustrations; and 4 leaves from a French edition, Paris: 1600. 5. A single leaf from Boccaccio. The Fall of Princes. London: Richard Pynson, 1527. Small folio. Gothic Letter. 6. A pair of conjugate leaves from Aristotle.Opera. Venice: Manutius, 1497. in Greek. 7. A pair of conjugate leaves from Otto von Passau. Die Vierundzwanzig alten oder der Goldene Thron. Augsburg, 1480. Folio, gothic letter, decorated with one hand-colored woodcut and two historiated initials. 8. One leaf from the Great Bible. Paris and London: Richard Pynson, 1539. Folio. This leaf with a cancelled University of Cambridge stamp. 9. A single leaf on vellum from a printed Horae. Paris: Simon Vostre 1511-12. 4to, illuminated initials. 10. A single leaf from the King James Bible. London: 1611. 11. A single leaf on vellum from a missal printed in Dillingen: Sebald Meyer, 1555. Folio. With three illuminated initials. 12. Four pages from early herbals including a single hand-colored leaf from German Herbarius. Peter Schoeffer: 1485; and single leaves from Turner's Herball. London: 1568; Dodeons Herball, 1578; and Gerard's Herbal, 1597.
A collection of 27 printed leaves on paper and vellum relating to early book illustration and the development of the Roman typeface, mounted in a folio album, printed various places, c.1470-1600, assembled c.1975, each exhibiting an important example of the use of Roman type, and all mounted in a folio album, the leaves and the clipped booksellers descriptions mounted one on every recto, late 20th century pigskin-backed cloth by Gray. Provenance: J.P. Foster (Gilt initials on upper cover, and armorial bookplate). A fine collection of early printed leaves, purchased in the 1960s and 1970s from English Book dealers including Fletcher, Pickering and Chatto, Charles Traylen and Alan Thomas. The collection of leaves, bound up for J.P. Foster, who had a particular interest in early printing, comprises: 1. Two leaves from Magini. Sophologium. Strassburg: c.1470. Small folio. The first Roman type to be cut. 2. Two leaves from Nicoluas de Lyra. Postilliae in Biblia. Rome: Sweynheym and Pannartz, 1471-72. Folio. Two decorated initials. 3. A conjugate pair of leaves. Plutarch. Parallellae. Venice: N. Jensen, 1478. Folio, the leaves with several wormholes. 4. Four leaves from Columna. Poliphili Hypnerotomachia. Venice: Manutius, 1545. Folio, two woodcut illustrations; and 4 leaves from a French edition, Paris: 1600. 5. A single leaf from Boccaccio. The Fall of Princes. London: Richard Pynson, 1527. Small folio. Gothic Letter. 6. A pair of conjugate leaves from Aristotle.Opera. Venice: Manutius, 1497. in Greek. 7. A pair of conjugate leaves from Otto von Passau. Die Vierundzwanzig alten oder der Goldene Thron. Augsburg, 1480. Folio, gothic letter, decorated with one hand-colored woodcut and two historiated initials. 8. One leaf from the Great Bible. Paris and London: Richard Pynson, 1539. Folio. This leaf with a cancelled University of Cambridge stamp. 9. A single leaf on vellum from a printed Horae. Paris: Simon Vostre 1511-12. 4to, illuminated initials. 10. A single leaf from the King James Bible. London: 1611. 11. A single leaf on vellum from a missal printed in Dillingen: Sebald Meyer, 1555. Folio. With three illuminated initials. 12. Four pages from early herbals including a single hand-colored leaf from German Herbarius. Peter Schoeffer: 1485; and single leaves from Turner's Herball. London: 1568; Dodeons Herball, 1578; and Gerard's Herbal, 1597.
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