[Rarebooks] FS: Simon de Colines

[John Howell]

Offered Today:

SCHREIBER, Fred.  

Simon de Colines: An Annotated Catalogue of 230 Examples of His Press, 1520-1546.  With an Introduction by Jeanne Veyrin-Forrer.  

Provo, UT: Friends of the Brigham Young University Library, 1995.  

4to.  11 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches.  lxxxiv, 246 pp.  Half-title, black-and-white frontispiece, introduction in French (with English translation), illustrations of sample title pages throughout, images of Coline’s printer’s devices, facsimiles of 2 Colines publishers’ catalogues, bibliography, indexes; text clean, unmarked.  Gray cloth stamped in red and gilt on the front cover, printed paper spine label, added plain paper dust- jacket in mylar with a printed paper title label; binding square and tight.  Fine.  

$ 100

LIMITED EDITION of 750 copies.  This book is a catalogue of a collection of 230 books issued by the celebrated French Renaissance printer Simon de Colines.  It supplements and amplifies Philippe Renouard’s Bibliographie des éditions de Simon de Colines.

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