farfel_n09_017_579

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Jeffrey Thomas
San Francisco
Dec. '02
a Trade ($450) marked

Brant, Sebastian (1458-1521)
Nauenschiff. English + Latin
(Stultifera nauis)

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London: Richard Pynson, 1509 (14 Dec.) f^o
Ref: S.T.C. 3545, G.B. [inserted] Gratshorn[end inserted] 300.
Copy: HEHL, Folger, NYPL, Yale, P. Morgan
Bodlevan, B.M.

Hart, James David. "An Original Leaf..."

Leaf
book

San Francisco: Printed for David Mages by
the Grabhorn Press, 1938. Small folio. 12 1/4 x 9.
32 pp. one of 115 copies containing an illustrated leaf
of a total edition of 260 copies Large red opening
initial + 15 hand colored marginal figures based
on woodcuts in the Pynson ed.
FOLIVM Superbia
CLXXXXV Of elcuate pryde/and bostynge.
- marked 201 in pencil. I^6 (of 6)

283 leaves [4] CCLXXIIII (ie CCLXXIX) leaves.
t^4 a^8 b-p^6 q^7 r-z^6 +^6 A-Y^6. Gothic type 7 (95mm)
Alexander Barclay, 1475?-1552
Jacob Locher, 1471-1528.

Pynson copied his illustrations from those accompanying
Pierre Reivieres French translation, printed in
Paris, 1497 (Goff B-1094). The Parisian cuts in turn
are based on those of the Basel editio princepa
(Goff B-1080) of which many were probably made or
designed by Albrecht Duer. All but 3 of the woodcuts
in the John Cawood 1570 ed. are printed from Pynson's

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#202

blocks. According to Binns, Pynson introduced Roman type
into England in 1509. In this ed. of the Stultifera Navis he used
a Roman typeface for the Latin but gothic black letter for the English.