Box 3

This series contains materials that were manufactured by hand or machine press. Some may still possess handwritten details such as rubricated initial letters, especially in the earlier examples when printed books were made to resemble manuscripts as much as possible.

Materials are organized by date, with the exception of oversize folio pages. These are listed at the end. Some of the longer titles have been truncated, as indicated by ellipses […].

This collection contains 150 objects from a portfolio set of “Pages From the Past”, collected and distributed by the now-defunct Society of Foliophiles in New York. They are individual leaves from original printed books and manuscripts in several languages, providing a compact yet extensive history of Western bookmaking from ancient Sumeria to the twentieth-century United States.

Fifth edition. Printed in Venice by Erhard Ratdolt. Woodcut diagram.

Printed in Venice by Bernadinus de Benaliis. Woodcut initials. Bookseller’s annotation to one leaf.

Printed in Basel by Johann de Amerbach. Rubricated.

Printed in Venice by Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis.

Printed in Nuremburg by Caspar Hochfeder. Rubricated.

Printed in Venice by Hieronymus de Paganini.

Printed in Lyons by Nicolas Wolff. Rubricated. Annotations to verso.

Published in southern France. Woodcut illustration. Annotations to one leaf.