Sales catalogue 402: Maggs Bros

Date:
1921
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/7
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 402: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FRANCE. Angers. Jean de La Tour. A.D. 1477. THE ONLY Copy KNOWN. PRINTED BY THE FIRST PRINTER AT ANGERS. - 12 Ordonnances Royaulx et les Stilles et Usages de proceder en la Court Layeé és pays d’Anjou et du Maine nouvellement corrigez par l’ordonnance des troys estatz des ditz pais, lesquelz ont esté publiez és principaulx sié¢ges et jurisdicions ' des ditz pais et commandé estre gardez et observez selon leur forme et teneur. LETTRES BATARDES, 30 LONG LINES. WITH WOODCUT OF THE KING OF FRANCE AND TWO FULL-PAGE PUNNING PRINTER’S DEVICES. (LA TOUR.) “t2mo. Levant morocco, three-line fillet border on sides, g. e., by Riviere. | (Angers, Jean) de La Tour, 1493.) : £52 10s Jean de la Tour, whose device is repeated twice, was the first and only printer at Angers, in the fifteenth century. Not in Hain, Copinger, Proctor, or any other bibliography as attested by a MS. note on fly-leaf by A. Claudin. No Copy in 7HH U.S.A. (accorDING TO CENSUS). thagenau - (Alsace). A.D. 1489. WITH MoorRIsH BINDING. 13 HOLKOT (Robert), Anglus. Postilla super libros Sapientiae. Black Letter, DOUBLE COLUMNS, 54 LINES, HEAD-LINE AND MARGINAL SECTION-LETTER TO A FULL PAGE. HEAD- LINES GIVE NUMBER OF CHAPTERS AND LECTIONS. CAPITAL SPACES, SOME WITH GUIDE-LETTERS. Folio. Original fifteenth century binding of oak boards covered with leather, tooled to a Moorish design (first few leaves repaired). ~ Hagenau, Heinrich Gran, 14094. £14 14s The binding bears marks of having originally been a chained binding. Hain. *8761. Proctor 3181. British Museum Catalogue, Vol. III., p. 682. : Heinrich Cran.