Title: Beschreibung typographischen Seltenheiten nebst Beyträgen zur Erfindungsgeschichte der Buchdruckerkunst. Erste [Zwote; Dritte] Lieferung. [Bei Eröfnung der Universitätsbibliothek zu Mainz herausgegeben] von Gotthelf Fischer [...]
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> Beschreibung typographischen Seltenheiten nebst Beyträgen zur Erfindungsgeschichte der Buchdruckerkunst. Erste [Zwote; Dritte] Lieferung. [Bei Eröfnung der Universitätsbibliothek zu Mainz herausgegeben] von Gotthelf Fischer Professor’n und Bibliothecar’n, Mitgliede des physikalisch-mathematischen Collegiums der Aerzte zu Basel, der physikalischen Gesellschaft zu Göttingen und der Linneischen Gesellschaften zu London und Leipzig; der philosomatischen und der medicinisch nacheifernden Gesellschaften in Paris, der botanischen Gesellschaft in Regensburg und der physikalischen Gesellschaft zu Iena Correspondenten [etc. etc.]. Mit einer Kupfertafel [Mit I. Fust’s Bildnisse und einer Schriftplatte; Mit Kupfern]</span></p> 

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 6 parts in two 8vo. volumes [only first volume is digitized]. f. [1] (blank), pp. [2], 86, f. [1] (folded plates); pp. 132, ff. [2] (folded plates); pp. 184, ff. [2] (folded plates), [1] (blank); f. [1] (blank), pp. 140, f. [1] (folded pates); pp. 168; ff. [2] (plates); pp. 200, ff. [2] (plates), [1] (blank). Half calf over cloth. Gilded spine. Blue pattern on edges. Volume 1 has bookplates stating: ‘The Stock and Reference Library of H. P. Kraus’ (with his card tipped in) and ‘Ex libris Liechtensteinianis’ on front pastedown. Volume 2 only has a bookplate of Hans Peter Kraus. Contains headpieces, illustrations; some plates are hand-colored in red. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Part I dates from 1800, part II and III from 1801, part IV from 1803 and part V and VI from 1804. Each part has a separate title page and imprint, with some variations: part 2: "</span><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">Beschreibung typographischer Seltenheiten und merkwürdiger Handschriften;" part 5: "</span></font><span style="font-size:15.3333px;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">G. Fischer's Beschreibung typographischer Seltenheiten und merkwürdiger Handschriften;" part 6: "</span><span style="font-size:15.3333px;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">G. Fischer's Beschreibung typographischer Seltenheiten und seltner Handschriften."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Includes, in Part I, p. 42, a spurious document concerning Johannes Gutenberg, almost certainly fabricated by Franz Joseph Bodmann, one-time curator of archives at the University of Mainz, trustingly published by Gotthelf Fischer (1771-1853). See D. McMurtrie, The Gutenberg Documents. New York, 1941, pp. 225-228.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039116029707861" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>