Original Leaves from Famous European Books,

Limited to 1 of 100 sets, 1pp.leaf of descriptive text, (duplicated), 12 single folio printed leaves, each mounted thick card window, loose in original cloth solander box, morocco lettering label to spine, folio, [1963]

The examples are taken from St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei 1470, Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493, Aldine Dante 1502, Ovid Metamorphoses 1559, Estienne's Herodotus 1592, Plantin Missal 1610, Elzevir Sallust 1634, The Imprimerie Royale 'Medailles', 1723, Ibarra Bible 1767, Aesop's Fables, Paris 1769, A Kempis' De Imitatione Christi, Paris 1788 and Thomson's Seasons, Parma 1794. Lacking the leaf from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493.

Dimensions: 55.5cm long x 40cm wide x 4cm deep