THE FIRST PRINTERS AND THEIR BOOKS; A Catalogue of an Exhibition Commemorating the Five Hundredth Anniversary of the Invention of Printing.
by Mongan, Elizabeth and Edwin Wolf
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- first
- Condition
- Very good in stiff cream wrappers (some toning to the pages and covers, minor wear to yapped edges.)
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About This Item
Philadelphia:: The Free Library of Philadelphia,, 1940.. First edition -. Very good in stiff cream wrappers (some toning to the pages and covers, minor wear to yapped edges.). First printing. Illustrated exhibition catalogue. Includes 64 incunabula from Gutenberg and his Bible through Wynkyn de Worde, in Westminster in 1500, with information on the printers as well as the books themselves. 94 pp
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57648
- Title
- THE FIRST PRINTERS AND THEIR BOOKS; A Catalogue of an Exhibition Commemorating the Five Hundredth Anniversary of the Invention of Printing.
- Author
- Mongan, Elizabeth and Edwin Wolf
- Format/Binding
- First edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in stiff cream wrappers (some toning to the pages and covers, minor wear to yapped edges.)
- Publisher
- The Free Library of Philadelphia,
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia:
- Date Published
- 1940.
- Keywords
- incunabula, gutenberg bible, woodcuts, exhibition catalogue, ephemera,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books about books;
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Incunabula
- Incunabula (incunable or incunabulum) refers to a book printed before 1501 - a pamphlet, a book or document that was not...