Lot 158 of 429:
Gutenberg Bible facsimile leaf  

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$360
Estimate:
$200 - $300

Title:
Gutenberg and the Book of Books with Bibliographical Notes, Reproductions of Specimen Pages and a Listing of Known Copies

Author:
Johnson, Henry Lewis

Place:
New York

Publisher:
William Edwin Rudge

Date:
1932

Description:

Illustrated with 4 color facsimile pages; separate folio with facsimile leaf containing 23rd Psalm. 41.3x29 cm. (16x11½"), gilt-lettered brown cloth, clamshell box. 1 of 750 copies. First Edition.

Handsomely executed facsimile pages from the Gutenberg Bible.


Lot Amendments

Condition:
Some wear and staining to outer box with a few edges splitting; some soiling and staining to cloth; foxing to margins and verso of loose facsimile leaf; very good.


 
Item number:
302864
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