The Plantin-Moretus Museum
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1929.
Limited Edition. Vellum.
#132 of a Limited Edition of 425 copies. This edition printed, colored & bound at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, in May 1929. With an introduction by Oscar Lewis.
In this work, first published in an article in Scribner's Magazine in of June of 1888, Theodore L. De Vinne charts the dramatic story of famed printer Christopher Plantin (1514-1589), the history the Plantin-Moretus Press, and of the museum located in the press's final offices in Antwerp.
Item #9024134-1/4 x 6-3/8", full vellum with gilt titles and decoration, deckled edges, 54pp, hand-colored frontis., hand-colored decorative initial depicting Christopher Plantin's printer's device (a hand emerging from the clouds holding a pair of compasses, one leg at rest and one inscribing a circle) by Valenti Angelo.
Fine in very good slip-case with a bit of toning to edges.
Price: $150.00