Name: Auction: Gregory the Great, Saint (540-604) Dialogus
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 504 GBP
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eiusque diaconi Petri in quattuor libros divisus: de vita et miraculis patrum italicorum et de eternitate animarum cum tabulis nuncnunc a novo supradditis. Paris: Ulrich Gering and Berchtoldt Rembolt, 23rd March 1508. 8vo (21 x 13.5cm), later vellum, 64 ff., signatures a-h8, title-page with criblé woodcut central panel containing Rembolt's device on shield suspended on vine and supported by two lions rampant, letterpress above in red, the whole enclosed by decorative criblé woodcut frame, large woodcut portrait of Gregory to verso of title-page, criblé woodcut initials throughout, all with red penwork embellishment, capital strokes throughout in red, boards sprung, a1-2 slightly marked and damp-stained, minute worm-track to lower margins of quires a-b, g5-h8 with small repaired tear in gutter, a few other light marks [not in Adams but cf. G1191 for a 1513 edition by Rembolt]

Gregory the Great, Saint (540-604)

Dialogus

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