Jerome Commelin, circa 1550-1597, Heidelberg printer, publisher & scholar. "First edition of the first book published by the great scholar Jerome Commelin (Hieronymus Commelinus). It compiles texts of Bede, Gildas, Froissart, William of Newburgh and Geoffrey of Monmouth."--Sothebys. "The work did much to foster the interest in and study of the Middle Ages in the 17th century."--Bloomsbury. Printer's device of naked woman sitting on stool and holding the sun in her right hand and and an open book in her left hand. Surrounded by a wreath of fruit with 4 Greek words within the wreath. 4.3 x 5...
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