[Rarebooks] FS: Leaf Book of the 1st English translation (1509) of "Ship of Fools"

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(LEAF BOOKS) Hart, James D. AN ORIGINAL LEAF FROM THE FIRST EDITION OF
ALEXANDER BARCLAY'S ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF SEBASTIAN BRANT'S "SHIP OF
FOOLS," PRINTED BY RICHARD PYNSON IN 1509. With an Essay by James D.
Hart. San Francisco: Printed for David Magee by the Grabhorn Press.
1938. Folio. (4),14,(2)pp. Text printed in black & red. Each page
illustrated with hand-colored woodcuts. With an original tipped-in leaf
containing a large woodcut. Edition limited to 260 copies (115 with a
leaf bearing a woodcut). Beige linen over decorative boards, paper
spine label. Orig. plain paper d.j. Fine copy.	$750.00 (trade discount
allowed)
One of the Fifty Books of the Year. The leaves with woodcuts were much
more desirable; books with a regular leaf were published in 1938 at $5,
the copies with woodcut leaves at $10. DISBOUND AND DISPERSED, #75.
GRABHORN BIBLIOGRAPHY, #300.

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