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==Famous examples== [[File:Pfister.faks.1.jpg|thumb|left|240px|{{center|First incunable with illustrations, Ulrich Boner's ''[[Der Edelstein]],'' printed by [[Albrecht Pfister]], Bamberg, 1461}}]] Famous incunabula include two from [[Mainz]], the [[Gutenberg Bible]] of 1455 and the ''Peregrinatio in terram sanctam'' of 1486, printed and illustrated by [[Erhard Reuwich]]; the ''[[Nuremberg Chronicle]]'' written by [[Hartmann Schedel]] and printed by [[Anton Koberger]] in 1493; and the ''[[Hypnerotomachia Poliphili]]'' printed by [[Aldus Manutius]] with important illustrations by an unknown artist.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}} Other printers of incunabula were [[Günther Zainer]] of [[Augsburg]], [[Johannes Mentelin]] and [[Heinrich Eggestein]] of [[Strasbourg]], [[Heinrich Gran]] of [[Haguenau]], [[Johann Amerbach]] of [[Basel]], [[William Caxton]] of [[Bruges]] and London, and [[Nicolas Jenson]] of [[Venice]]. The first incunable to have woodcut illustrations was [[Ulrich Boner]]'s ''Der Edelstein'', printed by [[Albrecht Pfister]] in [[Bamberg]] in 1461.<ref>Daniel De Simone (ed), ''A Heavenly Craft: the Woodcut in Early Printed Books,'' New York, 2004, {{p.|48}}.</ref> A finding in 2015 brought [[Procopius Waldvogel#Controversial printed quires possibly assigned to Procopius Waldvogel|evidence of quires]], as claimed by research, possibly printed in 1444–1446 and possibly assigned to [[Procopius Waldvogel]] of [[Avignon]], France.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}}
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