Secundus iohannes (4 Ergebnisse)

10 x 6.5, cloth, 14 pp, covers and spine slightly darkened else a fresh copy. LIMITED TO 800 NUMBERED COPIES.

Thin royal 8vo. [iv] + 14pp. + [i]. Rubric t.p., dec. woodcut devices. Light spotting, original dec. orange paper covered boards, paper title label to upper board, spine faded with loss to head and tail. No. 408 of a Limited Edition of 725 Copies, printed by the Kynoch Press. US$37.

Edition limited to 750 copies (this being no. 641). slim 8vo, pp. [23]; title within elaborate red printed border; original Italian paper-covered boards, printed paper label on upper cover, original glassine jacket chipped and torn, with splits; very good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A limited edition copy of this hand-press produced book by the Fortune Press. A wonderful copy of Johannes Secundus' 'Kisses'. Johannes Secundus was a New Latin poet of Dutch nationality. This translation is by Thomas Stanley and was first issued in 1647.First edition thus.With the original paper wraps around the bowed vellum boards. The bowing of boards is extremely common to this work.This is number 4 of 800 copies printed.A wonderful example of the work that the Fortune Press produced. In the publisher's original vellum boards. With original printed dustwrapper. Externally, very smart. Boards are bowed slightly. Small chip to the head of wrap. Minor fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). book.…