Incunabula from Butler Rare Books

Royal Folio; leaves measure 415 mm x 285 mm, with vast margins, apparently untrimmed. Bound in 15th-century blind-stamped South-German pigskin over wooden boards. Covers richly decorated in blind using both rolls and individual stamps, including flowerpots, dragon, double-headed eagle, 'lamb of God', text banners, etc; rear cover of somewhat different design with more geometric patterns. The quality of tooling -… Read more about this item

4to [314] leaves (first and last blank). Gothic type; 60 lines & headline: with white on black woodcut printer's device at end. Rubricated with guide letters and capitals beautifully supplied in red with decoration often extended into the margins. A contemporary owner has written "Flores Sapienne" on the recto of the first blank leaf. Few tiny round worm holes in… Read more about this item

Chancery folio (270 x 195mm.), 123 leaves (of 124, without final blank), a10 b8 c-s6 t10, 35 lines, roman type, initial spaces, some early annotations, last 2 leaves with repaired wormholes, otherwise a
fine copy with wide margins and internally fresh. The binding in crushed burgundy morocco by Brugalla dated 1947, gilt edges, marbled slipcase. The endpapers are vibrant marbled paper with… Read more about this item