Accession number
PML 250541
Creator
McDonald, Thomas W.
Published
Mexico City : Libreria anticuaria "Mexico en libros" G.M. Echaniz, 1964, c1961.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
"Impreso en papel Ameca Bond de 36 kilos. Tipo Modern de 8 puntos parado a mano por Arturo Morales Monterrubio, de Artesania Tipografica, encuadernado por Juan Silva, Mexico, D.F. Abril de 1964."--Colophon.
English translation of the complete texts of the Juan Pablos and Gil Barbero contracts with Juan Cromberger, signed at Seville, June 1539, providing for the founding of what may have been the first printing-office in the Western Hemisphere. Originally published and "Englished" by T.W. McDonald at Black Mack, Los Angeles, 1961, under title, Obelisk.
Includes facsimiles of t.p. and colophons used by Cromberger.
English translation of the complete texts of the Juan Pablos and Gil Barbero contracts with Juan Cromberger, signed at Seville, June 1539, providing for the founding of what may have been the first printing-office in the Western Hemisphere. Originally published and "Englished" by T.W. McDonald at Black Mack, Los Angeles, 1961, under title, Obelisk.
Includes facsimiles of t.p. and colophons used by Cromberger.
Description
[1], 52, [1] p. : ill., facsims. ; 47 x 40 mm.
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Bound in green oasis leather with gold-stamped title and border on cover and spine.
Classification
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