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One of the most active and enterprising of the early printers was Anthony Koburger of Nuremberg, an accomplished scholar, who began there in 1472, and before the year 1500 had printed thirteen large editions of the Bible in folio, and a prodigious number of other books.
His godfather was Anton Koburger, and he named him Albrecht after me, &c. &c. All these, my brothers and sisters, my dear father's children, are now dead, some in their childhood, others as they were growing up; only we three brothers still live, so long as God will, namely: I, Albrecht, and my brother Andreas and my brother Hans, the third of the name, my father's children.
It is very rare, being unknown to the great Dibdin, and was snapped up by me for three guineas out of a London bookseller's catalogue. A Virgil printed by Koburger in the year America was discovered, original binding and clasps, not in Dibdin, for three guineas! Hurrah! It excites my madness so that I must rush straight to Piper's and buy right and left.
"He, but now, what is there so formidable in this: 'GLOSSA IN EPISTOLAS D. PAULI, Norimbergoe, Antonius Koburger, 1474. This is not new. 'Tis a book of Pierre Lombard, the Master of Sentences. Is it because it is printed?"
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