Johannes Gutenberg [Pagent color lithograph]

[Facsimile of Johannes Gutenberg's] Biblia Latina [of 1456]

      [Limited Edition Facsimile of Johannes Gutenberg's] Biblia Latina [of 1456], Published by Pageant Books, Inc. (Paterson, NJ), 1961. 2 vols.; 12 1/2 x 18 inches; imperial folio high quality color facsimile of Gutenburg Bible using the Koeniglichen Bibliothek (Berlin) and Standischen Landesbiliothek (Fulda) copies, generally considered  to be the most beautifully illuminated of the 47 extant copies, as the exemplars, the first US edition and second ever, text pages printed by lithography, and illuminated pages printed by sheet-fed gravure, one of a limited printing of 1000 copies; expertly bound in matching full brown calf with raised and gilt bands and red and black spine labels with title and printer on each volume, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers. A spectacular limited edition reproduction of the best copies of the first printed book; Inventory #475 Please contact us at cmkester@nwark.com with any questions, or to request a print or electronic catalogue. We are professional antiquarian bookdealers with an extensive inventory of religious antiquarian volumes from 1500-1850, and are a member in good standing of the Arkansas Antiquarian Booksellers Association. St. Wulfstan’s Books.