These earlier printers were fortunate in securing in their offices the services, as revisers and correctors, of learned men who had a scholarly interest in the work. Melanchthon served as editor, reviser, and press-corrector in 1514-15 with Thomas Anshelm in Tübingen. Professor Johann Hiltebrand, of the University of Tübingen, Melanchthon’s predecessor in Anshelm’s office, named himself with pride _Castigator Chalcographiæ Anselmitanæ_. He had supervised the printing of several Latin and Greek grammars, and also of the _Epistolæ Virorum Clarorum_, published as a rejoinder to the famous _Epistolæ Virorum Obscurorum_. Pellican (Conrad) supervised for Petri of Basel the printing of the piracy edition of Luther’s Bible, receiving for his service board during the months he was occupied. The long association of Erasmus with Froben has been already referred to. Rhenanus writes to Erasmus, May 10, 1517: “Lachner promises to secure due acknowledgment to you for your services. In September you will receive payment for the work of revising the text of _S. Augustine_. He is now arranging the matter with Koberger in Frankfort.”[123] Kapp is authority for the statement that Luther received for his literary work no honorarium or compensation other than occasional copies of the printed volumes. This statement has reference doubtless only to those publications of Luther’s (many of them wholly unauthorised) which were issued by printer-publishers as ventures of their own. It is probable, however, as before stated, that the Wittenberg editions of the miscellaneous writings, and that of the German Bible, were printed at Luther’s risk and expense, and it is fair to assume that for the sale of these editions, which were his property, the receipts (less some selling commission) were paid over to Luther. The sale of Luther’s writings (both books and pamphlets) certainly exceeded anything that had as yet been known in the book-markets of Germany or of the world, and from the Wittenberg editions alone there must have been some proceeds. The first editions of Luther’s smaller and larger catechisms were printed in 1529 by George Rhaw, who had established himself as a printer in Wittenberg in 1521. He was distinguished as a musician and a mathematician, and, later, became magistrate of the town.