Search Results: Titles starting with R from Mundus Novus Galleries

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Frankfurt am Main, David Zoepfel, 1562, small quarto,(196 x 150 mm)ff,(8), 300. Late nineteen-century brown crushed morocco, spine with five raised bands, gilt in compartments, sites paneled in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, by Francis Bedford. Woodcut title vignette, 43 woodcuts in text (some repeats), title printed in black and red. Ownership inscription of William Tite dated 1856 to front free endpaper verso; engraved bookplate of C.S. Ascherson to front pastedown; above label of Edward Ascherson, with gift inscription from C.S.A to E.A. on front free endpaper verso dated Christmas eve 1901. Extremities very lightly rubbed, an excellent copy. The first of two Frankfurt printings by David Zoepfele that year, using the same woodcuts. The text is descended from the Low German version Reynke de Vos, first printed at Luebeck in 1498. This copy from the renowned library of the eminent British architect and book collector Sir William Tite (1798-1873), whose… Read More