[SPECIAL PRESS] EXPLORING THE EDGE:GUISTINIANI’S ACCOUNT OF COLUMBUS IN THE MARGINS OF 1516 POLYGOT PSALTER

Berkeley, CA: The Bankcroft Library Press, 1993. Limited Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good+ binding. Margo Consuelo Bors & Fritz Springmeyer. No markings in text. Grey paper binding tied at spine. Pages un-cut at top. The first published biography of Christopher Columbus was printed in the margins of the 1516 Polyglot Psalter as commentary to Psalms XIX. Giustiniani drew largely on Antonio Gallo’s and Bartholmeo Senarega’s manuscripts and he is, according to Anthony S. Bliss in his introduction, “maddeningly imprecise on historical detail....” and “tends to hyperbole and curious turns of phrase.” This translation by Sonoma bookseller, Gilman D. Parsons and Shawn E. Coyle of The Bancroft Library is only the second English translation; the other being, Henry Harrisse’s Notes on Columbus (1866). A curious piece and interesting read. Colophon: “Limited to 35 copies hand-set in Emerson and Weiss types and printed on the Berkeley Albion handpress.... Title-piece & initial by Margo Consuelo Bors. Cover-pieces cut in linoleum by Fritz Springmeyer”. Very Good+ binding.