H.P. KRAUS CATALOGUE 200

  • SIGNED quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards
  • New York: H.P. Kraus, 1995
By 200
New York: H.P. Kraus, 1995. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards. Kraus, H.P.. 4to. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards. vi, 243+(1). A Choice Selection of Two Hundred Early Books including over One Hundred and Fifty Incunabula, Marking the Completion of Fifty Years in our present location. Limited to 800 copies, printed at the Stinehour Press. Price list loosely inserted. A fine copy. Entries generally contain extensive physical descriptions, and information for author, publisher, provenance, etc., as appropriate, with references. There are also 95 illustrations (28 in color), facsimile and photographic, of text pages, illustrations, and printers' devices. Among items offered were a 1465-75 block book, a first edition Latin Nuremberg Chronicle, and printings by Aldus Manutius, Caxton, Froben, Kesler, Pynson and Schoeffer (to name a few). With five indexes.

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