Drexel
MC 37: Pages from the Past, Set V: Famous Presses
1491-1937
24.0 items 
Pages from the Past, Set V: Famous Presses

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Table of Contents Scope and content note
24 Leaves issued as a set by Foliophiles Inc. [Washington, D.C.?] in 1964.
Administrative information
Restrictions
The collection is open for research use.

Provenance
Unknown.

Preferred citation
Pages from the Past, Set V: Famous Presses, Drexel University Archives.

Physical characteristics
Imprints of specimens of various sizes hinge mounted onto heavy stock with descriptive labels.

Additional information

General notes
"c1926 T.F.I.", "c1927 T.F.I." or "c1964 T.F.I." appear on some of the captions.


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Contributors
  • Foliophiles, Incorporated
  • Genre terms
  • Engraving
  • Rubrication
  • Wood-engraving


  • Detailed inventory

     From works of Josephus. 1554 1.0 items

    "Basle 1554, Jerome Froben."





     From De Imitatione Christi of Thomas a Kempis (The Imitation of Christ). 1494 1.0 items

    "Printed by Caspar Hochfeder at Nuremberg in 1494.





     From Postille Majores cum Questionibus…by Pierre Balli. 1525 1.0 items

    "Printed by him at Lyons in 1525."





     From a digest of civil law by Andrea Torresano of Asolo. 1491 1.0 items

    Issued by Torresano "with the assistance of Peitro Fossano" in 1491.





     From Nova Legenda Angliae. 1516 1.0 items

    "From the press of Wynkyn de Worde. … Printed at 'the Flete Strete,' London, 1516."





     From a French Missal. 1858 1.0 items

    "Published at Paris in 1858. … From the … press of J. Claye."





     From the Nuremberg Chronicle. 1493 1.0 items

    "Printed in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger in 1493."





     From the Kings James Bible…English Protestant translation, or authorized version. 1611 1.0 items

    "Printed by Robert Barker, 1611, London, England."





     From a miniature Elzevir…volume on France in the "Republic Series." 1626 1.0 items

    "Printed in Leyden, 1626."





     From the Vulgate edition of the Bible. 1628 1.0 items

    "Printed at .. Plantin Press in Antwerp in 1628."





     From Ovid's "Fasti." 1527 1.0 items

    "Published by Alexander Paganini in Tusculanum (Italy) in 1527."





     From Plutarch's "Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes," translated…by Sir Thomas North. 1579 1.0 items

    "Printed by Thomas Vautrollier at London in 1579."





     From Aeneis Vergiliana (Vergil's Aeneid). 1517 1.0 items

    "Printed by Jacobus Sacon of Lyons … Dated 1517."





     From Arbor Scientiae, by Raimond Lull. 1505 1.0 folders

    "The colophon of this copy … reads: Barcelona, August 22, 1505."





     From In Psalterium Expositio … consisting of a commentary on the Psalms by Cassiodorus. 1491 1.0 items

    "From the press of Johann de Amerbach," printed 1491.





     From Dryden's translation of Virgil['s Aeneid]. 1697 1.0 items

    "Published by Jacob Tonson at London in 1697."





     From the Cornucopia of Nicholas Perottus. 1513 1.0 items

    "Printed at Venice in 1513."





     From the Chronicon of Sigebert of Gembloux. 1513 1.0 items

    "Printed by Henri Estienne (Henry Stephanus) at Paris, in 1513."





     From three famous miniature books. 1634, 1828 1.0 items

    One is "taken from one of the … Diamond Classics, published by William Pickering at London in 1828." Another is "from an edition of Horace…published by A. Mesnier at Paris in the same year." The third is "from a 'History of Savoy,' … issued by … Elzevir at Leyden in 1634."





     From the Book of Wisdom and Lies, by Loiver Wardrop. 1894 1.0 items

    "Printed at the Kelmscott Press for Bernard Qaritch, London, 1894."





     From the Saturnalia of Macrobius, "a new edition diligently revised and purged of infinite errors," by Joannes Rivius. 1513 1.0 items

    "Printed by Agostino de Zanni de Portesio … at Venice in 1513."





     From a Bruce Rogers folio, a limited edition of Sir Thomas More's "Utopia." 1937 1.0 items

    "Printed in New York at the Ridge Press. Only 1500 copies of this work were printed in 1937."





     From The Complete Works of Aurelius Clemens Prudentius 1870 1.0 items

    "Bearing the distinguished imprint, Ex Regio Typographeo, Parma, 1870."





     From Icones Veteris Testamenti, or Illustrations of the Old Testament. 1830 1.0 items

    "…From designs by Holbein. This book was one of the creations of William Pickering…It was printed by Charles Whittingham…and bears the imprint, London, 1830."





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