Cloth, 4to, 163 pp, ills. . 211 lots. From the foreword: "Eric Sexton (1902-1980) was a book collector for over fifty years.The chief interest of his library.was undoubtedly his collection of incunabula described in this catalogue. Its theme is the spread of printing in the fifteenth century and Sexton secured examples from 114 different towns including the first or sole books printed in Augsburg, Cividale, Constantinople (albeit a single volume only), Dijon, Foligno, Genoa, Lauingen, Marienthal, Rougemont, Scandiano and Vercelli. Unlike many collectors of the more obvious examples of this kind of book, he was keenly aware of, and guided by, the significance and the rarity of his purchases. Seventy-eight titles are recorded by Goff in three copies or fewer, six more are unrecorded by Goff and indeed, three of his books are the only copies known: Thomas Aquinas, De periculis contingentibus circa sacramentum eucharistiae, Ghent [between 1483 and 1489] (lot 71); Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale, Paris 1489 (lot 118); Theodorus, Vita, Pavia 1500 (lot 133). A number of the books are in important contemporary bindings." Spine-ends and corners slightly bumped, otherwise Near Very Good. .

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Fifteenth-Century Books Illustrating the Spread of Printing : The Collection of the Late Eric Sexton, F.S.A. and Seventeen Duplicates from the Pierpont Morgan Library [Christie, Manson & Woods, auction catalogue for the sale held on April 8, 1981 ]

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Christie Manson & Woods International Inc., New York, edition, 1981

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