Accession number:
PML 77028
Published:
[Worms : Peter Schöffer], 1525.
Credit:
Purchased on the Harper Fund, 1981.
Description:
[6], CLXXV, [1] leaves (last leaf blank) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Editio princeps.
HIGH RESERVE; for bindings study only.
Imprint from Shaaber. Colophon: Excusum anno a Christo nato MDXXV die vii Martij.
Includes index.
Later published with title Trialogus (?).
Library's copy lacking two leaves (A3-A4). 1st gathering misbound.
Signatures: A⁶ B⁸-2X⁴ (missigning C4 as C3)
The edition of this work is sometimes ascribed to Otto Brunfels. Cf. NUC.
Title within ornamental border (Luther, J. Titeleinfassungen 6b)
Binding:
Red morocco, gilt, with green morocco onlays, tooled to a neoclassical pattern, a Latin inscription tooled on the upper cover attests to the value of the book; with binder's ticket of "Fried. Schmidt, Buchbinder in Wien, 1793"; in PML case.
Provenance:
I.R.G. (stamp at the foot of spine), Lord Spencer (note fly leaf), R. Heber (note on fly leaf), Earls of Crawford (apparently 25th and 26th, Quaritch).
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