Box 1

Inlcudes the first chapter of the book of the prophet Zachary and the book of the prophet Aggeus. Label text: a leaf from the Thomas Matthew Bible, 1537.

With hand colored woodcut initial. Das erste buch von den ronigen.

Printed in Venice, 1560. Pages 739 and 740.

Includes Chap. IX, the conversion of Saul. A gift to FSH from Ross Sloniker 1971.

Doctor, Johannes Baptistae Von Helmonti, born 1577 in Brussels, died 1644. From the Biblical Library of Stanley S. Slotkin, Chairman of the Board of Abbey Rents Co. Pages 643 and 644.

Label text: Anonymous. New Good Old Days of Adam and Eve. London, c. 1815, 9 x 7". Dating from printer J. Pitts Toy and Marble Warehouse. Great St. Andrew at Seven Dials (OCLC records as 1802-1819). At least we are more certain of the printer than the title which was so serverely cropped that we are forced to interpolate form the stubs of two words which match the chorus.

One broadside is Printing - The Early Years 1455-1470. The other broadside if the for Margaret Bridwell Bowdle Collection, designed and produced by William D. Wittliff at the Encino Press, Austin.

Label text: original leaf printed by William Caxton, England's first printer, in 1482.

Label text: Some precious printed lines from Gutenberg's Catholicon. At the very dawn of printing the Catholicon was printed by John Gutenberg in his shop at Mainz, Germany in 1459 or 1460, about the dame time as he was completing his great bible in the same shop. The Catholicon, a Latin grammar and encyclopedia, was the first non-religious book ever printed. The type was one-third the size of that used in the Gutenberg Bible. Gift of John Marsh, Berea '54.