OF SCRIBES [caption title]
by [Hammer, Carolyn, printer]: Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus
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About This Item
[Lexington, KY: Stamperia del Santuccio, 1958].. [8]pp. Small folio (27 x 19 cm). Blue-grey paper boards, printed spine label. Small nick at toe of spine, otherwise about fine. First edition of this translation by Fr. Augustine Wolff of the Abbey of Gethsemani ("a Trappist monk" unidentified in the colophon). The text is a selection from DE ANTIQUARIIS. Published as Opus XIV of the press in an edition of fifty press-numbered copies printed on Magnani paper in black, red and blue, by Carolyn Hammer, with an opening pictorial initial cut from brass by Victor Hammer. This is designated as copy 7. Holbrook indicates there was "no edition binding," but this binding is certainly typical of at least a few copies. By virture of the limitation, rather scarce. HOLBROOK 147.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCLIT86575
- Title
- OF SCRIBES [caption title]
- Author
- [Hammer, Carolyn, printer]: Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Stamperia del Santuccio
- Place of Publication
- [Lexington, KY
- Date Published
- 1958].
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