{"product_id":"schreiber-woodcuts-from-the-fifteenth-century-123411","title":"Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003e55 incunable leaves, all with woodcut illustrations, including 20 in hand-colour\u003c\/h4\u003eOne 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHighlights 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLimited 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"SCHREIBER, W.L. (compiler); BARBEY, André (translator)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57157644124535,"sku":"123411","price":15000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/123411.jpg?v=1780967073","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/products\/schreiber-woodcuts-from-the-fifteenth-century-123411","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}