Morison, S.. German Incunabula in the British Museum : One Hundred and Fifty-Two Facsimile Plates of Fine Book-Pages from Presses of Germany, German-Switzerland, and Austria-Hungary, Printed in the Fifteenth Century in Gothic Letter and Derived Founts.. Victor Gollancz Limited, London, first edition, 1928, 1928.

Price: US$153.93 + shipping

Description: Limited edition, this being one of 398 "English-text" copies, from a total edition of 553 copies. Cloth, large folio, 46 cm, 26, [2], pp, 152 pages of collotype plates (some in red and black). From the preface: "In the selection of the plates which form the bulk of this volume, I have been very materially assisted by the admirably arranged British Museum Catalogue of Fifteenth Century Books. . I have also used the publications of the Type Facsimile Society and the Gesellschaft für Typenkunde; and of course the works of Dr Haebler, Dr Voulliéme and other incunabulists. In describing the types I have preferred the older and stricter calligraphical terms such as Text and Bastard to the modern and less precise Gothic and Semi-Gothic and in grouping, I have been guided in the main by palaeographers, my debt being considerable to the Specimina Codicum Latinorum Vaticanorum of Cardinal Ehrle and Father Libaert (Bonn 1912)." A lightly ex-library copy with a gilt callnumber on the spine, label (overstamped "Withdrawn") on the front pastedown endpaper, a small circular stamp on the title-page and a larger stamp on the verso of the title-page. The small circular stamp is present in the margins of one or two text page sand at the top right corner of each collotype plate. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped, otherwise a Very Good copy.

Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom

Morison, Stanley.. German Incunabula in the British Museum. One Hundred and Fifty-Two Facsimile Plates of Fine Book-Pages from Presses of Germany, German-Switzerland and Austria-Hungary Printed in the Fifteenth Century in Gothic Letter and Derived Founts.. London: Victor Gollancz Limited. 1928., 1928.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition. Folio. Limited to 398 copies. Title-page slightly foxed. 152 plates (many printed in red and black). Original decorated cloth; backstrip gone; pages all loose. Appleton, 72.

Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Morison, Stanley. German Incunabula in the British Museum: One Hundred & Fifty-Two Facsimile Plates of Fine Book-Pages from Presses of Germany, German-Switzerland and Austria-Hungary Printed in the Fifteenth Century in Gothic Letter and Derived Founts. Victor Gollancz Limited, London, England, 1928.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1 of 398 copies in Limited Edition.

Seller: Charles Bartman, Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.

STANLEY MORISON.. German Incunabula in the British Museum. One Hundred & Fifty-Two Facsimile Plates of Fine Book-Pages from Presses of Germany, Germany-Switzerland and Austria-Hungary Printed in the Fifteenth Century in Gothic Letter and Derived Fonts. With an introduction by Stanley Morison.. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1928.

Price: US$256.55 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition, one of 398 copies (from a total edition of 428 English-language copies). Elephant Folio. 26pp + clii plates. Black cloth, lettered in gold at the spine. A touch of bruising to the cloth at the head of the backstrip. Edges and endpapers spotted, and some not inconsiderable further spotting throughout, sometimes impacting the plates. A good copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, which is somewhat toned, marked, nicked, creased and chipped with some internal taped repair.

Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom