Descripción:
[Strasbourg, Johann Prüss, around 1488].Folio [276 x 197 mm] (82) ll. [sif. ()1 a5 b-m6 n10] ; goth. car. 50 lignes. Blind-stamped fawn calf over wooden boards, covers decorated with a frame made of fillets and fleur-de-lys pattern, surrounding a decoration of oval compartments containing in their center a thistle motif, spine ribbed. Contemporary binding.
Rare first Latin edition and first of four issues described by Goff of one of the most coveted illustrated incunabula.
Hain, 4411 ; Proctor, 558 ; Fairfax Murray, 70 ; Stillwell, J, 236 ; Copinger, I, 137 ; Dibdin, VI, 122 ; Schreiber, 3489 ; Goff, J-268.
This copy belongs to the first issue cited by Goff, which he calls "a", meaning that the running titles have the chapter numbers printed in Roman numerals. In the second issue he describes, these same numbers are printed in full letters. Other copies are composite and offer quires from both editions.
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