Incunabula Collections & their Value for Scholars, with Reference to The Vollbehr Collection, by Dr. Ernst Schulz, Translated by Dr. Powell Spring, Foreword by Dr. Pierce Butler. Paperback Published in 1928 by William Edwin Rudge in Mount Vernon, New York. Contains Eight Facsimile Reproductions of 15th Century Illustrations. OP

Ernst Schulz / Henry Powell Spring (Translator) / Pierce Butler (Foreword)

Published by William Edwin Rudge, 1928

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This is "Collections of Incunabula and their Value for Scholars, with Special Reference to the Vollbehr Collection", by Dr. Ernst Schulz , and Translated by Dr. Powell Spring. The book has an informative Foreword by Dr. Pierce Butler (Librarian of the Newbury Library at Chicago). The book has eight facsimile reproductions of 15th century wood engravings. Dr. Butler's foreword starts thusly: "To visit This collection is, for a person of historical imagination, an almost overwhelming experience. these volumes, so fresh and yet so old, reach back into history four and a half centuries and more. If one is fortunate and be entrusted to take into his own hands one of these relics, let him hold it reverently as a precious heirloom of his own ancestral past. Fifteen generations of men have lived and died since these pages were printed. Fifteen generations have wrought and thought while this volume was handed down from fathers to their sons. Against this lapse of years the span of an individual lifetime would dwindle to pathetic littleness, did not this book reveal a pattern in the whole. Four hundred and fifty years of intellectual effort and achievement are crystallized into this book ---- But of all, the old books, perhaps, are what we most hoard and cherish for they bring us closest to the spirit of the past. " ******************************************** TITLE : Collections of Incunabula and Their Value for Scholars with Special Reference to the Vollbehr Collection (The Vollbehr Collection was assembled through the years by Otto Heinrich Friederich Vollbehr, 1869 - 1946. This collection was eventually purchased for the Library of Congress) / AUTHOR : Dr. Ernst Schulz (1897 - 1944) / TRANSLATOR : Dr. Powell Spring ( Henry Powell Spring, 1891 - 1950) / FOREWORD : Dr. Pierce Butler (1884 - 1953) / IMPRINT : William Edwin Rudge / PLACE : Mount Vernon, New York / DATE : No date [ but 1928 ] / EDITION : Unstated First Edition / STATUS : OP / PHYSICAL DETAILS : Paperback format; contains 8 reproductions of 15th century illustrations; has a foreword; 32 unnumbered pages (pagination includes title leaf); leaves have rough-cut fore-edges approximately 6 1/8" x 9 3/8", printed wraps, sewn and glued. Cover printing replicates title page. ******************************************* CONDITION --- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable with the following particulars noted :: EXTERIOR -- Slight wear to spine extremities; covers display moderate surface rub, a touch of spotting (just above the title on the front cover), and a bit of vague smudging; minute nicks and dents to cover edges (which extend beyond the leaves just slightly). Else he exterior is clean. / BINDING -- Solid. / INTERIOR -- Clean and free of marking. Seller Inventory # 2121

Bibliographic Details

Title: Incunabula Collections & their Value for ...

Publisher: William Edwin Rudge

Publication Date: 1928

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition