[BIBLE -- FACSIMILE] -- [GUTENBERG BIBLE]. Biblia Sacra. Paterson, NJ: Pageant Books, 1961. LIMITED EDITION.
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[BIBLE -- FACSIMILE] -- [GUTENBERG BIBLE]. Biblia Sacra. Paterson, NJ: Pageant Books, 1961.
2 volumes, folio. Full pigskin decorated with images of the Annunciation with clasps (slight cocking to spine of second volume).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 1,000 sets of the "first Gutenberg facsimile ever printed in the United States and only the second in the world. The reproduction derives from the Insel Verlag edition which was based on the copy in the Koniglichen Bibliothek in Berlin and the copy in the Standischen Landesbibliothek in Fulda, considered by authorities to be the most beautifully illuminated of the 47 copies known to exist. The text pages have been printed by lithography and the illuminated pages by sheet-fed gravure. The paper used is 100 per cent rag content made especially for this book" (colophon).
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