Medieval Texts and Their First Appearance In Print

London : Bibliographical Society at the University Press, Oxford, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series: Supplement to the Bibliographical Society's transactions ; no.16. Physical description: 143p., plates ; 22cm. Subjects: Early… Read more about this item

London / Meisenheim: Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the University Press, Oxford. Hardcover. Reprinted photographically, with corrections: 144p., illustrated with a lurid frontispiece from 1488. Hardbound in 8x6 inch dark blue cloth boards spine-titled gilt. Perfectly sound, clean and unmarked.

Meisenheim: Hain, 1965 8vo (20.5 cm), front., [4], 144 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine (collector's blind stamps on the front free end-paper). Published in 1943, "Medieval Texts and their First Appearance in Print" is a landmark work of scholarship on the incunabula period. The author offers a comprehensive survey of the medieval texts, tracing their origins and examining their significance… Read more about this item

[Meisenheim, Germany: Hain, 1965. Reprinted photographically with corrections, slim 8vo, pp. 144; facsimile frontispiece; original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; minor damp staining to boards along spine edges, else very good. Facsimile reprint of the London, Bibliographical Society at the University Press, 1943 edition. Supplement to the Bibliographical Society's Transactions, no. 16.