Printed pages from European literature
Subtitle: a portfolio of original leaves taken from rare and notable books and manuscripts : apart from their picturesque qualities and historic interest, these specimens will prove of great value in tracing the evolution of the printed page and the hand lettering from which it sprang : though complete in itself, this portfolio is one of a series covering the world's literature from earliest times to the present day
Publisher: Society of Foliophiles
Published: 1925
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Books; History; Printing; Specimens
Notes: Cover title.

Contains (1) Introduction (1 leaf) by G. M. L. Brown (2) Folders [no.1-20] each having on its front page descriptive notes on the work from which the original leaf is enclosed in the folder. The text of the notes is printed within double line frame.

Issued in a portfolio.

On label attached to inside of cover of portfolio: "Only two hundred of this portfolio have been issued."

De Hamel, C. Disbound and dispersed, 24
Table of contents: title: [1] Breviary manuscript, 15th century; title: [2] In Psalterium exposito / Cassiodorus. Basle, 1491; title: [3] Infortiatum de Tortis. Venice, 1495; title: [4] Panis quotidianus ... / [Hieronymus de Villa Vitis]. Hagenau, 1509; title: [5] Student summary of Aristotle's Natural philosophy = [In hoc opere continentur totius philosophiae naturalis paraphrases] / [Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples]. Paris, 1510; title: [6] Cornucopia / Niccolò Perotti. Venice, 1513; title: [7] Aenis Vergiliana / Virgil. Lyons, 1517; title: [8] Fasti / Ovid. Tusculani, Italy, 1527; title: [9] From Lucian in original Greek / Lucian of Samosata. Basle, 1545; title: [10] History of his own times = [Historiarum sui temporis] / Paulus Jovius. Paris, 1553; title: [11] From the works of Josephus = [Antiquatum iudaicarum] / Flavius Josephus. Basle, 1554; title: [12] From a work on Euclid by Nicholas Tartalea = [Euclide Megarense philosopho] / Euclid. Venice, 1565; title: [13] Magini's "Geographiae universae" / Ptolemy. Cologne, 1597; title: [14] From the "Justinian code" = [Corpus juris civilis]. St. Gervais, 1602; title: [15] From the Hebrew Pentateuch = [Hamishah humshe Torah]. Geneva, 1617-1618; title: [16] Respublica. Leyden, 1626; title: [17] From the Vulgate edition of the Bible = [Biblia Sacra vulgatae editionis]. Antwerp, 1628; title: [18] From "De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica" / Willem Piso. Amsterdam, 1658; title: [19] From the "Coustumes de Touraine". Tours, 1661; title: [20] From "Commentariorum in Ordinationes regias Castellae". Salamanca, 1674.