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1481FF2519Cologne:: Johann Guldenschaff 1481. 1481. First edition. Small folio. 311 of 314 leaves; CCXII and CXV supplied in early manuscript lacking a1 blank. Gothic type rubrications in red or blue leaves 90-132 with paragraph marks initial strokes and underlining in red; first four leaves with repairs to fore-edge margin some dampstains. BOUND in full 19th century polished calf over wooden boards and decorated in blind five raised bands gilt spine lettering decorative blind roll to edges inner dentelles stamped in blind marbled endpapers; moderate edgewear joints starting rear joint partially split rubbed and worn with some losses small sticker to upper board. Housed in modern custom brown cloth clamshell case spine lettered in gilt minor edgewear. Very good. EXTREMELY RARE: A FORE-EDGE PAINTING ON AN INCUNABLE. Fore-edge painting by John T. Beer depicting "Monastic Ruins at Mount Sinai" signed & dated 1895 in the lower left corner. NOTE see below: 'yellow' circle marking the location of Beer's signature on the painting. Beer inscribed the title of the fore-edge scene on his bookplate and also on a rear endsheet. This is one of four books from the fifteenth century that Beer painted a fore-edge painting on. FIRST PERSON TO SIGN HIS FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS & ALSO PAINTED ON BOOKS FROM HIS PERSONAL LIBRARY. PROVENANCE: John T. Beer bookplate – Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge 12 November 1903 Beer Library sale lot 311 "Gotscaldius Fra. – William Ridler bookseller – Wican Free Public Library bookplate – Bonhams London Sale 20412 lot 158 October 2 2012 – Reiss & Sohn April 23 2013 – Bloomsbury 12 June 2013 lot 69 – Jeff Weber Rare Books – Randall J. Moskovitz MD – Heritage Auction 9 June 2021 lot 45002 – Jeff Weber Rare Books. REFERENCES: BMC I 225; Goff H-294; Hain 8766; Weber Jeff The Fore-edge Paintings of John T. Beer 2005 no. 116; Weber Jeff Annotated Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting Artists & Binders pp. 54-59. From the Estate of Randall J. Moskovitz MD Memphis Tennessee. Johann Guldenschaff, 1481. hardcover