Item #028893 Christopher Plantin & The Officina Plantiniana, A sketch by Saul Marks, and a translation by Peter van der Pass of the Office Rules at the Golden Compasses Antwerp, c. 1563. Saul Marks.
Christopher Plantin & The Officina Plantiniana, A sketch by Saul Marks, and a translation by Peter van der Pass of the Office Rules at the Golden Compasses Antwerp, c. 1563.
Christopher Plantin & The Officina Plantiniana, A sketch by Saul Marks, and a translation by Peter van der Pass of the Office Rules at the Golden Compasses Antwerp, c. 1563.
Christopher Plantin & The Officina Plantiniana, A sketch by Saul Marks, and a translation by Peter van der Pass of the Office Rules at the Golden Compasses Antwerp, c. 1563.

Christopher Plantin & The Officina Plantiniana, A sketch by Saul Marks, and a translation by Peter van der Pass of the Office Rules at the Golden Compasses Antwerp, c. 1563.

Los Angeles: The Plantin Press, 1972. Limited Edition. Small Octavo. Item #028893

44 pages. Limited to 140 copies. Portrait of Plantin, after an engraving by Hendrik Golzius, with three of Plantin's press marks. This translation of the "Rules" was first printed by Muir Dawson and Saul Marks at the Plantin Press as a contribution to a keepsake honoring Alfred A. Knopf upon reaching his fiftieth year of publishing in 1965. A fine copy bound in light gray lettered and decorated in brown, spine lettering brown, in a fine decorative dust jacket. A beautiful copy.

Price: $175.00