Two pinholes on side. Initials and paragraph-marks
supplied in red. Blank leaf 268 wanting. Hain-Copinger 4424.
Pellechet 3244. Proctor 3524.
Wendelin of Speier succeeded in 1470 to the press established in 1469 by
his brother John, the first printer of Venice, who lived to complete
only four books. Gothic type was introduced into Italy by Wendelin.
Roberto Caraccioli, born at Lecce in 1425, was bishop of his native city
from 1484 to 1495. The great reputation which these sermons enjoyed is
attested by the fact that four editions, three of them printed in
Venice, appeared in 1472, and four more in 1473, one of which was
Wendelin's second edition, an exact reprint of the present.
The Wodhull copy, bought at the sale of the library of Samuel Tyssen, in
1801, for L1.1s., bound in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on side, at a
further cost of 19 shillings. Leaf 10-1/8 x 7-1/2 in.
10. VALLA, LAURENTIUS. Elegantiae linguae Latinae. Venetiis, Nicolaus
Jenson, 1471.
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collectio_n_is in ordinem alphabeti directae principium.
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