Quarter vellum over marbled boards
1981 · Los Angeles:
by [Jerome, Saint]. Gilbert, Bennett, editor
Los Angeles: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge – H. M. Fletcher, 1981 One of an intended 300 copies set in Monotype Janson and printed letterpress on Frankfurt Cream Paper by Patrick Reagh and Vance Gerry. A note from the publisher states that, given various publication mishaps, the final number was actually closer to 200. Quarter vellum over marbled boards. Folio. Title page printed in black and red. With an original fifteenth-century leaf in a pocket at the end of the text. A fine copy. The leaf is from what is purported to be the first book printed in Rome. Reissinger set up his printing firm in 1466, about the time that Sweynheim and Pannartz left Subiaco and moved to Rome. It is certainly from a very early Roman incunable, and the editio princeps of the Letters of St. Jerome, a pivotal book in the Western canon.
(Inventory #: 17473)