Item #5046 Count Heinrich IV zu Castell: A German Renaissance Book Collector and the bindings made for him during his student years in Orleans, Paris, and Bologna [with] Publication Announcement. B. H. Breslauer.
Count Heinrich IV zu Castell: A German Renaissance Book Collector and the bindings made for him during his student years in Orleans, Paris, and Bologna [with] Publication Announcement

Count Heinrich IV zu Castell: A German Renaissance Book Collector and the bindings made for him during his student years in Orleans, Paris, and Bologna [with] Publication Announcement

Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1987. Limited to 175 copies, this a printer's copy. Folio, [4], 38, [1]pp. Mounted color frontis, four mounted color plates of bindings. Signed by the publisher and designer, W. Thomas Taylor at the colophon. Green Fabriano paper over boards, lettered in gilt. Prospectus announcement laid in, 8vo, [2]pp, single leaf laid paper, printed letterpress. Two small stains to bottom of colophon page else fine. Describes the history, with beautiful examples, of the Castell library of Count Heinrich IV (1525-1595), which at one point was owned by the famous bookseller and bibliographer, Martin Breslauer. This book was written by his son, Bernard H., another great in the trade.

This copy, which includes the finely printed prospectus, has been signed by the designer and printer, W. Thomas Taylor. Taylor intimates in a short note his experience with Breslauer, and that the entire, lavish project was funded by the author. Item #5046

Price: $350.00

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