Ventes live - Lot 440

[Facsimile - Gutenberg]

[Facsimile of the original Gutenberg Bible of 1454-1455].

(New Jersey and New York, Pageant Books, 1961)

€ 1.500 / 2.000

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Description du lot

2 vol., large folio.

Publ. bordeaux morocco, blind-stamped front covers, with the initials of Johannes Gutenberg at the centre, titled spines with raised bands, a.e.g. (some corners sl. rubbed, few scratches on front cover of vol. 1 and back cover of vol. 2).

First Gutenberg facsimile printed in the US and only the second in the world; derived from the Insel Verlag edition based on the copy in the Königlichen Bibliothek in Berlin. The text pages have been printed by lithography and the illuminated pages by sheet-fed gravure. Limited edition to 1.000 unnumbered sets of which 996 were for sale.

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Lot 440

[Facsimile of the original Gutenberg Bible of 1454-1455].

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