[Rarebooks] FS: Incunabula printed by "the R Printer" (circa 1473)

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(INCUNABULA) Donatus, Aelius. COMMENTUM IN TERENTII COMOEDIAS. (Strasburg: 
The R-Printer: Adolf Rusch and/or Johannn Mentelin, about 1473). Folio. ff.251 
(of 252, without the first blank). A2 recto with a large red & brown capital 
letter, with a long flourish, other capitals filled in red. Some sporadic red 
punctuation strokes; some contemporary marginal annotations. Bound in 19th 
century German marbled paper covered boards, spine somewhat chipped. A beautiful, 
clean, untrimmed copy, very fresh. Housed in a brown cloth folding box with 
morocco spine label.        $15,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
The third edition of this important early (4th century) commentary on the 
Comedies of Terence. The present edition reprints that of Vindelin de Spira at 
Venice, c. 1472, omitting the final couplet naming the printer. Typographically 
important for the very early roman typeface with the distinctive capital R, 
for many years considered to be the first roman type. All three of the earliest 
editions date from 1472-1473 and all three are very scarce. There are no 
American institutional copies of the Rome, 1472 printing, and only 4 institutional 
holdings each for the Venice, De Spira, edition and our Strasburg, The 
R-Printer, edition. See H 6382; BMC I, 61; Goff D-354.

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