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.

The Collection on Letterpress Printing comprises a variety of 15th through 20th century hand printed items that were found on the shelves of Hutchins Library's Special Collections and Archives department. The collection was created in 2025 to enable discoverability of the individual resources.

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.