Thomas Grenville was a British politician and bibliophile.
Thomas Grenville by Giovanni Battista Comolli, British Library, London
Dedication to Grenville in volume I of A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts, by Thomas Young (1807)
The Mainz Psalter was the second major book printed with movable type in the West; the first was the Gutenberg Bible. It is a psalter commissioned by the Mainz archbishop in 1457. The Psalter introduced several innovations: it was the first book to feature a printed date of publication, a printed colophon, two sizes of type, printed decorative initials, and the first to be printed in three colours. The colophon also contains the first example of a printer's mark. It was the first important publication issued by Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer following their split from Johannes Gutenberg.
Opening (Royal Collection)
From the 1459 second edition : with an illuminated letter
The Mainz Psalter (1457) of George III, rebound in 1800
Printer's mark of Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer