West-European incunabula
Subtitle: 60 original leaves from the presses of the Netherlands, France, Iberia and Great Britain
By: described by Konrad Haebler, translated from the German by André Barbey.
Contributors: Barbey, André, tr.
Publisher: Weiss & Co.
Published: 1928
Place of publication: Munich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Incunabula -- Europe, Western -- Bibliography.; Printing -- History -- Origin and antecedents.; Type and type-founding -- History.; Europe, Western -- Imprints.
Genres: Bibliography.
Notes: Issued in portfolio. The plates are mounted and inlaid in paper mats, with mounted descriptive labels.
The text consists of a list of plates, arranged under country alphabetically by place of printing, with a short history of the early printing in each country followed by descriptive notes on each specimen, giving information about the printer and the character of the types.
German edition has title: Der westeuropäische Wiegendruck in Original-Typenbeispielen.
"This English edition appears in one issue of 100 copies numbered by hand."
LC has copy no. 43.