In Original Dust Jacket
Meisterdrucke gotischer Schrift Deutsche Incunabeln in Britischen Museum [German Incunabula in the British Museum].
Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth. A.G, 1928.
Price: $500.00
About the item
First edition in German, number 41 of 125 copies. 33 pp. of text, 152 facsimile plates of Fine Book-Pages from the Presses of German, German-Switzerland and Austria-Hungary Printed in the Fifteenth Century. 1 vols. Folio. In Original Dust Jacket. Original black and tan cloth, fine, some foxing, in original slightly worn dust jacket.
Item #245323
"The accompanying facsimiles, therefore, have been collected as some contribution towards an understanding of the letter-designs used in the earliest printed books. They have been selected to illustrate the finest specimens of the form and composition of a type of printing-letter." (from the English edition introduction).
