• One of the rarest and most desirable plate books of the early 20th century, W.L. Schreiber's Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century houses 55 incunable leaves, all with woodcut illustrations, and including 20 leaves in hand colour.
  • One of the rarest and most desirable plate books of the early 20th century, W.L. Schreiber's Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century houses 55 incunable leaves, all with woodcut illustrations, and including 20 leaves in hand colour.
  • One of the rarest and most desirable plate books of the early 20th century, W.L. Schreiber's Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century houses 55 incunable leaves, all with woodcut illustrations, and including 20 leaves in hand colour.
  • One of the rarest and most desirable plate books of the early 20th century, W.L. Schreiber's Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century houses 55 incunable leaves, all with woodcut illustrations, and including 20 leaves in hand colour.
  • One of the rarest and most desirable plate books of the early 20th century, W.L. Schreiber's Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century houses 55 incunable leaves, all with woodcut illustrations, and including 20 leaves in hand colour.
  • One of the rarest and most desirable plate books of the early 20th century, W.L. Schreiber's Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century houses 55 incunable leaves, all with woodcut illustrations, and including 20 leaves in hand colour.
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SCHREIBER, W.L. (compiler); BARBEY, André (translator)

Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century

Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century

shown in original specimens. 55 leaves detached from books printed in Germany, Switzerland, Bohemia, The Netherlands and Italy. With an introduction by W.L. Schreiber. Translated from the German by André Barbey.

Stock Code 123411

Munich, Weiss & Co. Antiquariat, 1929.

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55 incunable leaves, all with woodcut illustrations, including 20 in hand-colour

One of the rarest and most-desirable plate-books of the early 20th century housing 55 incunable leaves, all with woodcut illustrations, and including 20 leaves in hand-colour.

Highlights include hand-coloured plates from von Kaub's herbal Gart de Desundheit c.1499 depicting wall germander, the martyrdom of St Mark from the 1488 edition of Der Heiligen Leben, and city-scapes from the German-language edition of Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicles.

Limited edition number 17 of 100 copies, and one of 50 issued with the English text-book; large folio (50 x 38.5 cm); text of incunable leaves in German and Latin, each with woodcut illustrations or ornaments, 20 with hand colour, a few examples with rubrication in red or blue ink, accompanying illustrated text-book in English numbered in pen to limitation-page, publisher's cream wrappers, a little spotted, spine split at binding cords, incunable leaves tipped-in to mounts with title labels, occasional toning, all housed in the publisher's buckram clamshell box, lettered in black to upper cover.

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