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NUREMBERG -- Reformation der Stadt Nürnberg. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 5 June 1484.
Chancery 2° (304 x 209mm). Gothic type, opening red and blue initial with red penwork, initials and paragraph marks in red and blue, rubricated, some impressions of bearer type. (Without last blank, lacking first leaf with woodcut, supplied in photostat facsimile, some predominantly marginal worming affecting a few letters in last 4 leaves, first leaf soiled affecting a few letters, dampstaining in first few leaves, occasional marginal dampstaining and spotting.) Contemporary Augsburg binding of dark brown calf over wooden boards, border of repeated scrolling vine tools, roll border of foliate decoration on a diaper ground, central panel of curved leafy stems forming a saltire pattern, interstices stamped with large artichoke tools (Kyriss shop 78, tool 4) and another small plant tool (Kyriss shop 78, tool 1), single small flower tool used once (Kyriss shop 80, tool 5), title "Reformation" stamped at top of front cover (rebacked, quite rubbed, lacking pair of fore-edge clasps, large cracks to back cover, later endleaves, preserving a fragment of earlier front pastedown with manuscript notes). Provenance: early 16th-century notes concerning the text of the edition (on fragment of original pastedown) -- Lionel H. Pries (bookplates).
FIRST EDITION of the laws and statutes of the city of Nuremberg, the FIRST PRINTED CITY STATUTES (only the table of contents survives of Konrad Fyner's apparently unfinished edition, dated c.1479, the same year as this Neue Reformation of Nuremberg city laws). The binding is probably from the large and richly stocked Augsburg bindery christened by Kyriss "6-Blatt-Blüte" (shop 78), although one of the small tools seems to correspond to a tool from another 15th-century Augsburg bindery. HC *13716; BMC II, 426; Harvard/Walsh 699-700; Polain(B) 682; Schäfer/von Arnim 254; Goff R-37.
Chancery 2° (304 x 209mm). Gothic type, opening red and blue initial with red penwork, initials and paragraph marks in red and blue, rubricated, some impressions of bearer type. (Without last blank, lacking first leaf with woodcut, supplied in photostat facsimile, some predominantly marginal worming affecting a few letters in last 4 leaves, first leaf soiled affecting a few letters, dampstaining in first few leaves, occasional marginal dampstaining and spotting.) Contemporary Augsburg binding of dark brown calf over wooden boards, border of repeated scrolling vine tools, roll border of foliate decoration on a diaper ground, central panel of curved leafy stems forming a saltire pattern, interstices stamped with large artichoke tools (Kyriss shop 78, tool 4) and another small plant tool (Kyriss shop 78, tool 1), single small flower tool used once (Kyriss shop 80, tool 5), title "Reformation" stamped at top of front cover (rebacked, quite rubbed, lacking pair of fore-edge clasps, large cracks to back cover, later endleaves, preserving a fragment of earlier front pastedown with manuscript notes). Provenance: early 16th-century notes concerning the text of the edition (on fragment of original pastedown) -- Lionel H. Pries (bookplates).
FIRST EDITION of the laws and statutes of the city of Nuremberg, the FIRST PRINTED CITY STATUTES (only the table of contents survives of Konrad Fyner's apparently unfinished edition, dated c.1479, the same year as this Neue Reformation of Nuremberg city laws). The binding is probably from the large and richly stocked Augsburg bindery christened by Kyriss "6-Blatt-Blüte" (shop 78), although one of the small tools seems to correspond to a tool from another 15th-century Augsburg bindery. HC *13716; BMC II, 426; Harvard/Walsh 699-700; Polain(B) 682; Schäfer/von Arnim 254; Goff R-37.
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