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T. Zenna : commenced to print, 11 — ? 36. Novum Beate Marie Virginia Psalteriuni. !Many cuts and borders. 4to. Cologne, IVJ'2 — Mr. Fisher. John Borciiard, TuoMAS Borciiard : commenced printing, 1491. 37. Laudes Beatte Virginis Marite. Folio. The first book printed at Hamburg, 1491 — Messrs. Ellis and Green. Anthony Koberger : b. cir. 1445, d. 1513 ; began to print, 1472. 38. Chronicon Nurembergense : auctore Hartmanno Schedel. Wood- cuts by Wolgcmut and Pleydenwiii-ff. Folio. Nuremberg, 1493 — Professor Westmacott, K.A. 39. Another copy, 1493— The Rev. J. Fuller Russell. 40. Cicero de Oratore. Folio. Nuremberg, 1497 — Society of Anti- quaries. JoUANX ScHGENSPERGER : commcnccd printing, 1493. 41. Chronicon Nurembergense. Woodcuts: first leaf in MS. Folio. Nuremberg, 1497— Sir T. E. Winnington, Bart. JoHANN Bergmann, de Olpe : commenced printing, 1494. 42. Brandt's Stultifera Navis. Woodcuts. 4to. Basle, 1497 — The Rev. J. Fuller Russell. The following is probably by the same printer : it is a volume of ex- traordinary rarity : — 43. Epistola Christoferi Colom : containing the discovery of the Isles of America. 4th edition, and the first which contains cuts. 4to. Basle, 1494_The Rev. J. Fuller RusseU. Eruard Ratdolf, or Ratdolt. This printer is said to have invented a method of using gold ink in printing. He flourished at Augsburg after 1487. 44. Missal ; formerly belonging to the monastery at Erfurt. Augs- burg, cir. 1500 — Mr. Octavius Morgan, M.P. Printer unknown. 45. Rationarinm Evangelistarum . . . prosa versu imaginibusque, que mirifice complectens, &c. Woodcuts. 4to. 1507 — Mr. Addington. For an account of this most curious book see Dibdin, Bibliographical Decameron, vol. i. p. 131. There was an earlier edition, 1502 : a later one, 152i', is assigned by Panzer to Thomas Aiishebn, of Haguenau. It is not improbable that he was also the printer of this. Matthew ScuOltes : began to print, ? 4G. Theur-Danck. Woodcuts. Folio. Augsburg, 1519— Mr. T. Talbot Bury. This is a second edition of this curious Teutonic romance : sometimes ascribed to Maximilian I., whose nu[)tials with Mary of Burgundy it celebrates : the emperor figuring under the name of " Ritter Herr Theurdanck." According to Mr. Home,'"' this book has been supposed to be entirely xylographic. Conrad Baumgarten : commenced printing, 1504. 47. Hedwigis Legeuda. A Lhy hcbet sich an dy gi'osse legeda der
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