THE ESTIENNES. A Biographical Essay. Illustrated with Original Leaves from Books Printed by the Three Greatest Members of That Distinguished Family
by Pattison, Mark
Price: $500.00
- Bookseller: Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc.
- Seller Inventory #: 5926
- Book condition:
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: The Book Club of California.
- Place: San Francisco
- Date published: 1949
Book Description
San Francisco: The Book Club of California.. 1949. Folio. (14),42,(2)pp. Title with large woodcut device printed in red. With 3 tipped-in original leaves: from EGREGII PATRIS RICARDI... Paris: Henri Estienne. 1510; from EUSEBII PAMPHILI EVANGELICAE PRAEPARATIONIS... in Greek. Paris: Robert Estienne. 1544; and from DIONIS CASSII ROMANORUM... Greek & Latin. Geneva: Henri II Estienne. 1592. This is the Special Edition limited to 50 "large paper copies" (total printing of 390) on Crown and Sceptre paper, printed at the Grabhorn Press. Raw linen, paper spine label, over marbled boards. A fine copy. Laid in at rear is a letter from the President of the Book Club of California, noting that the 50 special copies were over-subscribed and the recipients (whose names are listed in the letter) were chosen by a drawing.
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