New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-22

1NG
copies, OF .ne same ,eort-tbere is no duphes'e Of
tne sam, edition.
lhe.system adopted BY Prof Stenzler in srraog-
Hg .nese works seems 10 NE very perfect, an ooe
worth followipg-when We get the books 10 ar
range
The few splendid works printed on parchment.
are placed together at the beginning. ThOse upon
paper are divided into two series.
/. Those where the place of printing IL known.
In this division the books are arranged accord
ing TO psces-those OF each city together The
works from each city are then arranged according
TO the prioters as il Psnzer's grea! work Annales
TypogrsphicOrDm, II vols, Alto. differing from
Psnzer in this, that the works Of each printer are
placed together. Then the cities are arranged ac-
cordDg to the chronology OF printing, taking FAX
eDstens work as authority (Geschiohe der Bneh
druokerkUnst 4to, Leipzig, lo40)
The second series or division consists OF works
Of which the place Of printing is undetermined
And these again naturally fall into two subdiyls-
ions: lst those where the date is found IN the
book, and these stand chronoOglcally; I'd, where
both place and date are wanting and these are ar
ranged alphabetically as in Panzer.
find that omitted to note how many cities are
represented in this collection although the num-
Der of books from the principal once is jetted down.
After the parchments-
l. MeItz the cradle Of printing From Gu:.enbers vol,
Csboiconn 1860 Faust vol, ADssrn's Ar: OF Print
ia" Is.iI) Scboefer z works Other priner woik'-o
Z Rome. From tb. Office of sch~einh.iu Il P.nr.I,z.
WORKS. kiDe other printers, II wohs-.oisL IL
Among these is the first printed edition Of CT
ceros Epstles." As there were no Greek type
then spaces are left in the text in which Ciceros
Greek quotations are inserted with pen-now
and then one omitted.
Cologne 100 works, Of which % from the press Of Zsn,
III. mos. noted Of the Cologne printers.
Ausibur n woIs II Ct which are from the Office Of Gun
th.I zsiIer. -,
6 v.nics a. FROM Hichols. Jensen, le
!. Nuremberg, ls5.
8. Pari', l6
Is su.bus ?'s From E,rersn ~ nd s%on. ,he.s p.
6n German Bhe, in vols folio sbou, 1865 Trsn'sed from
the vule.te BY whom nobody knows
q. Tim. 81 From zaner, ss.
a. Leipzig $50.
The cities omitted in This small list swell the
number, as above stated, TO 2,295 volumes, all
printed before or during the year 1900.
That single Gbrary-one, too, which has not
made the collection Of such works an object
should possess so large number OF volumes, with
no duplicate editions, gives one some idea OF the
activity of the press during that wonderful century
O450-l550) Of Luther, Erasmus, Columbus,
Loyoa, Raphael Michael Angelo, the great Me
dci, dc. And yet but faint one. Perhaps
should be ashamed TO confess il, but had never
until quite recently formed any due conception of
this Hahn ofMunicb, in his photography of works
from I440 to 1900 gives 16 800 editions of books,
to him known, either from personal examination or
from the descriptions Of others. 1t is tue that, IN
some cases, single works occupy several OF his
closely printed pages the number OF editions beng
40 ereat-ThOmas Kempis, for instance; It is
also true editions of books then were small; but
this does not detract from, rather adds to our idea
of the industry of the typos of that day. But Ham
died before completing his work, and his list of
Ii, 800 is very imperfect
Prof Stenzler showed me list made up out of
the Bresau typographical collection, which 10 this
regard utterly astonshed me; list of 800 editions
of books printed before 1901, not IN Hams work,
and 334 which correct his descriptions II other
great libraries can furnish anything like this, rs
material to perfect Hams catalogue, those fret
90 years of printing must have given the world at
the least 90. 600 editions of books No wonder
that bgotry, superstition, and tyranny 80 soon
found necessary 10 establish an iron bondage over
the press
In the compendous History of Printing, by Prof.
Hairless of Bonn (cvo., lS40) no mention ia made
of Bres lau Yet | saw these four works from a
Breslau press, which was very early established In
one of the mOnkeries Of that city. One OF these,
containing place and date, is 3 /" Statuta Syno-
dali,," printed insli75. Another is without place
ard date, but.he type has peculiartles which prove
il absolutely to be from the same press. 1t Is
Poggii FdcetiG. To such as know the filthy o6.
sceplty of these old Latin facetlous stories, 1t Will
be no wonder that place and date were omitted;
il gives A pleasant idea Of the severe plety and
asceticism of the holy men of God who printed IT.
One of the most elegant specimens of typography
| ever saw leads the list Of the Bresau works,
printed on parchment. 1t is large folio, on hne
velum from the press OF Peter Sch0ener OF bientz'
I412 Its contents cases in Ecclesiastical Law.
Each is headed by an exquisitely painted immature
Illumination a from the
case in question One of these gives us insight into
two adjoining apartments. In one, Is poor, mis-
cradle tOrlorn shadow Of q man sitting SICK, with
ply stefan BY hm in the other, bufom, hand
some woman, much younger, whom Stout Joly-
Looking youpp fellow is kissing. j did not read the
case; but az il was one of Church law, II ls easy
enough 10 understand what II must have been
Another represents bishop kneelng before Inc al
tar The altar piece is Satan, with finely developed
horns. snout, and tail. The was that of
priest " hom his Bishop had deprived of his ONCE
and degraded By snd BY the Bishop died, and II
came out that he had turned Protestant before the
act Of degrading. Query: Had h., as hereto,
power 10 degrade ore of the faithful had not
time and patience knowledge of Latin enough ,
t. study out the twenty-five and hall loll0 pages
of discussion TO find out the result
Another collection, which Prof. Stenzier hiss
separated from the great mass of books, IS ten ong
shelves full of works from the famous press of AL
dus st Venice beginning with the first which Was
issued-Mu.aus: Hero ei LeaHder, in Greek and
Latin. with queer old wood cuts.
The collection Of Bibles, too is fine and large.
How happens 1t that people seem to have the idea
that Luther made the fret Gerlnsn translation oil
the Bible OF the different editions OF German
Bibles printed before Luthers Old Testament
l52N there are mere the lst, 4th 9Th 9Th gb
10Th, lth and 18th before the year 1900. one OF
1907. ard smother of l5l-. But what Interested