Item #163385 THE HOLY GOSPEL according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The Gospels.
THE HOLY GOSPEL according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

THE HOLY GOSPEL according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

[With a postscript on the woodcuts by Giovanni Mardersteig]. Pp. 370+[2](last colophon), title page wood engraving by Reynolds Stone, plus 114 woodcut text illustrations after illustrations by Bartolomeo di Giovanni (1495); narrow med. 4to; full red morocco, lettered and decorated in gilt, the upper board very faintly marked, spine slightly faded; t.e.g., others uncut; within beige cloth slipcase with decorative border in red, a trifle soiled and scuffed, edges slightly faded; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on the upper pastedown; Officina Bodoni, Verona, 1962. Edition limited to 320numbered copies; this being one of 155 copies for Great Britain. Barr 64. *The text is from the King James version of the Bible. The illustrations are from Epistole & Evangelii & Lectioni vulgari in lingua toschana (Florence, 1495) 'the most considerable single achievement of fifteenth century Florentine book illustration' [Barr p. 68]. They were recut for this edition by Bruno Bramanti (except the last 8, which were cut by his pupil, Italo Zetti, after Bramanti's death in 1957). Item #163385

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