[Rarebooks] FS: Presentation copy of Stillwell's 1460 Catholicon Leaf Book

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(LEAF BOOKS) Stillwell, Margaret Bingham. GUTENBERG AND THE CATHOLICON OF 
1460. A Bibliographical Essay. Together with an Original Leaf of the 
Catholicon. New York: Edmund Byrne Hackett, The Brick Row Book Shop, Inc. 1936. 
Folio (17" x 12-1/4"). (10).28pp. Double column text. Title printed in red & 
black. Loosely laid in at front is an original leaf of "The Catholicon" (14" x 
11", double column text with rubricated initials). Original printed blue 
wrappers (small repaired closed tear at ffore-edge). A presentation copy 
inscribed on the front wrapper, "To Mr. Alfred W. Pollard, with sincere regards, 
M. B. Stillwell." Note: most copies were bound in full calf or buckram. This 
is apparently one of a few copies in printed wrappers given to the author.   
  $4,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
DISBOUND AND DISPERSED, #70.

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