Description:
Cambridge: (Cygnet Press), 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine. Quarter black cloth gilt with green-gray paper-covered boards, cover label, 12mo., (35) pages, 19 woodcuts from the 1497 edition, and numerous decorated initials. An entirely unopened copy printed on thick handmade paper. In Italian. The first book of this private press created by George Parker Winship and Philip Hofer. Slight fading to spine, minor edgewear, still a very near fine copy in archival mylar.
Vita De Sancto Hieronymo -
Similar copies are shown below.
Similar copies are shown to the right.
Vita de sancto Hieronymo
- Used
[Cambridge]: Stamperia del Cigno / Cygnet Press, 1928. unpaginated, 5.25x6.5 inches, twenty woodcuts from the 1497 edition, fine presswork on fine mouldmade paper, text in Italian, cloth-backed boards spine-titled gilt with a paper cover-label. Front board bears an inch-long scratch, signatures show gutter gaps but item even so is sound. FYI, the line-drawn cuts are of course re-cut from originals. Good to very good copy, enclosed in a small flat box to size as issued; this box is worn with marginal tears and pressure marks. First book of the Cygnet Press, on the life of Saint Jerome; presumably reproduces a vernacular incunable.
-
Bookseller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Book Condition Used
- Quantity Available 1
- Publisher Stamperia del Cigno / Cygnet Press
- Place of Publication [Cambridge]
- Date Published 1928
We have 4 copies available starting at $40.00.
VITA DE SANCTO HIERONYMO
by (Philip Hofer)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
FERNDALE, Michigan, United States
- Item Price
-
$40.00
Show Details
Item Price
$40.00
Vita de Sancto Hieronymo
by (Cygnet Press)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Quarter cloth and boards. Fine. with card laid in
- Edition
- First Book of the Press. Managers George Parker Winship and Phil
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, United States
- Item Price
-
$100.00
Show Details
Description:
[Cambridge: Cygnet Press, 1928. First Book of the Press. Managers George Parker Winship and Philip Hofer. 1 vols. 12mo. Quarter cloth and boards. Fine. with card laid in. First Book of the Press. Managers George Parker Winship and Philip Hofer. 1 vols. 12mo.
Item Price
$100.00
Vita De Sancto Hieronymo
by [Saint Jerome]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Glassine dust wrapper (worn and chipped)
- Edition
- Presumed First Edition, First printing thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
- Item Price
-
$225.00$168.75Save $56.25!
Show Details
Description:
Cambridge, MA: Cygnet Press, 1928. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Very good/Glassine dust wrapper (worn and chipped). Approximately 36 pages. In Latin. A biography of Saint Jerome that originally appeared in the 1497 edition of the saint's letters translated into Italian by Matteo da Ferrara. The first publication of the imprint, undertaken "by a group of bookish enthusiasts, chief among them being Mr. George Parker Winship" - Ransom. The text and woodcuts were derived from the 1497 edition of St. Jerome's Letters printed at Ferrara, and the whole printed in Goudy's Italian Old Style. Jerome (c. 342 - c. 347 - 30 September 420), also known as Jerome of Stridon, was a Christian priest, confessor, theologian, and historian; he is commonly known as Saint Jerome. He is best known for his translation of the Bible into Latin (the translation that became known as the Vulgate) and his commentaries on the whole Bible. Jerome attempted to create a translation of the Old Testament…
Read More Item Price
$225.00$168.75
Save $56.25
!
More Photos
Vita de Sancto Hieronymo [with original manuscript letter by Philip Hofer, later Curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Harvard's Houghton Library, discussing his work at the [Pierpont] Morgan Library and the first product of Cygnet Press, "Vita de Sancto Hieronymo", which he and George Parker Winship had produced 6 years earlier: "The little book which accompanies this note is one which George Parker Winship and I set by hand and printed a few years ago. It amused us, and, I hope, will amuse you. Of course we would do it differently now - that is always the way !". The letter, on Hofer's stationery with his address at 14 East Ninetieth Street, is addressed to one Dr. Collija in Stockholm, on June 25, 1934 and Hofer reminisces about the wonderful time he had there and how he wants to return to Sweden.
by [Cygnet Press / Hofer, Philip / Winship, George Parker] Matteo da Ferrara
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Skibbereen, Ireland
- Item Price
-
$807.52
Show Details
Description:
1928. Cambridge (Massachusetts), Cygnet Press, MCMXXVIII [1928]. Small Octavo (13.3 cm x 17 cm). [35] pages. Original Hardcover with Label. Housed in its original, protective box from Cygnet Press. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. The four-page-letter (on one sheet), signed by Philip Hofer in full. Philip Hofer was founder and first curator of the "Department of Printing and Graphic Arts" at Houghton Library and secretary of the Fogg Art Museum.
Item Price
$807.52