Betbüechlein. - S.l.: M.DC.VII. - [126 pp.]; 31x19 mm.A facsimile of Viennese printer Ludwig Bonnoberger's famous prayer book of 1607, presented to a gathering of bibliophiles at the Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hofbibliothek (Imperial Court Library), September 29, 1912.
Bound like the original copy in buff cloth with interwoven silver threads.
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dges gilt and gauffered with two indented circles. Printed in Vienna by Adolf Holzhausen and the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt. Housed in a scooped out compartment of a larger volume in olive-green cloth with the title gilt on the spine, containing details of this tiny prayerbook.
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dges gilt and gauffered with two indented circles. Printed in Vienna by Adolf Holzhausen and the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt. Housed in a scooped out compartment of a larger volume in olive-green cloth with the title gilt on the spine, containing details of this tiny prayerbook.Not many details are known about the printer Ludwig Bonnoberger (? - 1614). Merely twenty editions bear his imprint - Typis Ludovici Bonnoberger, in Bursa Agni - ranging from 1603, when he took over the office ánd the widow of a Viennese printer (or reversed?), to 1616. The editions of 1615 and 1616 were issued under his name by his widow. The only copy known of the original miniature book is to be found in the the 'Prunksaal ' (splendor hall) of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library).
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