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Herolt | Postilla Guillermi super epistolas et evangelia, [Basel, 1505], later boards

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot Closed

July 19, 01:56 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Johannes Herolt


Postilla Guillermi super epistolas et evangelia de t[em]p[or]e et de s[an]ctis et pro defunctis. [Basel: Michael Furter, 1505]


4to (197 x 135mm.), woodcut of the four symbols of the Evangelists on title-page with separate woodcut borders, woodcut illustrations, without final blank leaf, nineteenth-century boards, a few annotations, some small wormholes, cut close at head, binding slightly rubbed


Herolt's commentary on the Gospels was printed in numerous editions around this time. Herolt, a Dominican who died in 1468, was one of the best selling authors of the first century of printing.


LITERATURE:

VD16 E 4367


PROVENANCE:

Ex Bibliotheca Renessiana, bookplate, i.e. Clément Wenceslaus comte de Renesse-Breidbach (1776-1833), sale of his collection, Antwerp, 1835, lot 275; J.-B. Colbert de Beaulieu, bookplate at front and cataloguing form pasted to inside lower cover (dated 1938); Jean Stefgen, bookplates

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