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1662. Octavo 6 X 3 ½ )( [-)(8] A-X [L5 signed 'K5']. This copy is bound in beautifully red calf with gilt spine and boards.

Vienne (France) & Basil: Eberhard Frommolt & Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1480. More than one hundred editions of the Postilla super epistolas et evangelia by Guillermus Parisiensis were printed during the fifteenth century. Folio. 26.8 x 18 cm. Signatures: [a-x⁸ y-z⁶]. 178 of 180 (wanting blanks leaves 40 lines. This copy is bound in an Antiphonal leaf. Goff, "The Postilla of Guillermus Parisiensis," Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1959, p. 73). The Postilla provide commentary on the Gospels to be read each Sunday and festival. The text is surviving in numerous early manuscripts,yet its authorship remains uncertain, but current consensus recognises much of the base as Johann Herolt's work, edited and augmented by Guillermus, a Dominican friar of Paris. "More than one hundred editions of the Postilla super epistolas et evangelia by Guillermus Parisiensis were printed during the fifteenth century. Surely this esteemed compilation must be regarded as one of the earliest 'best sellers', for how else can one explain… Read More

London: 1668, 1668. First Edition. Printed: 1668 1609-1679 octavo, First Complete edition, Fourth edition overall "The recantation of a penitent Proteus" and "The fair quarrel" with separate title-pages/ There are at least three editions of 1668 See my blog of July 27 2015 The present is mispaged and the first line of the imprint ends: Lon-/ Signatures: A-H8/ Title within single rule border; head-pieces/ Leaves A1 and H8 are blank The title-poem first appeared separately in 1660; a smaller collection that this one (1668)appeared in 1661, and was reprinted in 1665 This copy is bound in full 18th century calf recently repacked with spine label Wild, a Puritan divine, met with popularity of his poetry rather disturbed such non-literary friends as Richard Baxter Included here are "The Norfolk and Wisbech Cock-Fight," "Upon Some Bottles of Sack and Claret," a satire on the political contortions of Nathaniel Lee, and a number of ballads and elegies Not a particularly common book; the new edition of Wing… Read More

[Köln] : [Southern Germany : n.pr., about 1480-90?] or [Cologne? : n.pr., about 1483] or [Ludwig von Renchen?], 1483 Deutschla, 1480. First Edition. First edition. - First blank almost loose, with backed tear and torn of corner as well as "Rosarium sup(er) bibliam" in old handwriting, flyleaf with purchase note dated 1908, small water stain on the bottom corner in the first half of the work, slightly soiled and tanned. - Wide margined copy from the Wican Free Public Library (blind stamp and bookplate). - 19th centuy half vellum (slightly scrachted and scuffed). Rubricated and initials supplied in red and blue. ¶ This is one of the earliest printed books on the ars memorativa or mnemotechnics the rare first edition of the Roseum memoriale composed by the German Benedictine monk Petrus of Rosenhaym (Upper Bavaria), written between 1423 and 1426 for Cardinal Giulio Branda di Castiglione. Petrus of Rosenhaym composed numerous treatises, sermons, and verses: the Roseum memoriale is surely his most… Read More