Aquinas, Thomas, Saint. Summa theologiae: Pars secunda: prima pars. Mainz : Peter Schoeffer, 6 March 1467.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1163 (sold to Bain for £34). — Bonham, 28 June 1996, lot 68 (sold for £32,000). — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 26b (£15). — ISTC (it00209000).
Digital version: BSB.
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Clement V [Clemens V], Pope. Constitutiones. Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 8 October 1467.
Provenance: Alexander Crawford Lindsay, Earl of Crawford. — James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of Crawford. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL12).
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 26b (£150). — ISTC (ic00711000). — Morgan Catalogue 1, no. 16.
Digital version: BSB.
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Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo [Saint Augustinus]. De civitate dei. [Subiaco: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz], 12 June 1467.
Bound into the volume is a vellum leaf from the Ashendene Press Inferno, which uses a typeface based on that of this book. With a bibliographical note by Cockerell, at the end of which is written in another hand (probably Tomkinson’s): “Mr Cockerell tells me this book was greatly esteemed by Mr Morris— Mr Hornby has a fount of type copied from this & an example is here on vellum—”
Provenance: Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 142 (sold to Tregaskis for £77). — Michael Tomkinson. — Tomkinson sale, Sotheby, 3 April and 3 July 1922. —Charles William Dyson Perrins. — Dyson Perrins sale, Sotheby, 17 June 1946, lot 29. — Quaritch 100th anniversary catalogue (1947), no. 13 (£1,900). — Arci Bianchi. — Frank V. De Bellis. — Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University (06054) [purchased from from De Bellis, 1962].
Reference: ISTC (ia01230000).
Digital version: Internet Archive.

Photo credit: Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University.
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February 15, 2017
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