AUGUSTINUS, Saint (354-430).

Sermones sancti ad heremitas

      [printer of 'Casus breves' (Georg Husner)] [about 1493-94], Strassburg Recent full calf in an appropriate antique style Small 4to . Scarce incunabular edition of this collection of sermons attributed to St. Augustine (354-430). The present work is grouped by the British Museum catalogue with other anonymously published works from Strassburg during 1493 -1494 now attributed to Georg Husner "who became a citizen of Strassburg by marriage in 1470, put his name (with that of Beckenhug) to one printed book in 1473, and (without Beckenhub) to two in 1476. . There was enough anonymous printing done at Strassburg to keep several presses busy, . The isolated differences between the tree types used in 1493 and 1494 in the books here grouped to follow the anonymous edition of the Casus breues Decretalium are only of the kind which would naturally occur by replacements in the course of several years . " (BMC I, p. 159). A very handsome copy with contemporary rubrications through the first half of the work [108] leaves, 34 lines & headline, gothic type, 2 columns, initials supplied in red in first half, red capital strokes in first half with capitol spaces and guide letters in latter half. Title and last blank page a little dusty. Some minor foxing. § GW 3006 (pseudo- Augustinus); HC 1998*; BMC I, 161; Goff A1318; Proctor 724;.