[Rarebooks] FS: "Gutenberg and the Catholicon of 1460" with an original leaf!

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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 12-1/2"). (10).28pp. Double column text. Title printed in red & 
black. Housed in the rear cover is an original leaf of "The Catholicon" (14" x 
11", double column text with rubricated initials). The deluxe "Collector's 
Edition" (limitation unknown); bound in full blind & gilt stamped antique 
calf, some slight rubbing at head & foot of spine. With the publisher's 
original brown pebbled cloth dust jacket and matching slipcase. Laid in at front 
are the original prospectus in its mailing envelope and 2 T.l.s. by Edmund 
Byrne Hackett, President of The Brick Row Book Shop, regarding the acquisition 
of this copy, obtained at a later date. Though the prospectus calls for 2 
leaves in the deluxe binding, this copy only has one.     $4,500.00 (trade 
discount allowed)
The Catholicon is a reference work on the Latin language, which 
incorporates a religious Latin dictionary.   Disbound and Dispersed, #70.

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