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DÜRER, Albrecht (1471-1528). Hierinn sind begriffen Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion, edited by Willibald Pirckheimer. Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae Formschneider for Dürer's widow, 31 October 1528.
2° (304 x 200 mm). Gothic type, sometimes double column. Dürer's large woodcut monogram on title, approximately 136 full-length proportional woodcuts of human figures, many two to a page, four folding woodcut diagrams, and a duplicate folding plate (S5) supplied from a shorter copy, numerous smaller geometrical or proportional woodcut diagrams, some of heads, arms, hands and feet, fraktur initials, flourished woodcut tail-piece ornaments. (Title remargined at foot, mounted on guard, small, old paper repair to next leaf and a few other repairs, some light browning and spotting, light thumbstaining in lower corner, three folding plates repaired, slightly affecting images.) Modern brown goatskin, paper title label.
FIRST EDITION. 'Written, designed and illustrated by Dürer, the posthumous Vier bücher was the first work to discuss the problems of comparative and differential anthropometry. Dürer held that the essence of true form was the primary mathematical figure (e.g., straight line, circle, curve, conic section) constructed arithmetically or geometrically, and made beautiful by the application of a canon of proportion. However, he was also convinced that beauty of form was a relative and not an absolute quality; thus the purpose of his system of anthropometry was to provide the artist with the means to delineate, on the basis of sheer measurement, all possible types of human figures' (Norman). Bohatta 17; Choulant-Frank, pp. 143-44; Garrison-Morton 149; NLM/Durling 1295; Stillwell Science 622; Norman 666.
2° (304 x 200 mm). Gothic type, sometimes double column. Dürer's large woodcut monogram on title, approximately 136 full-length proportional woodcuts of human figures, many two to a page, four folding woodcut diagrams, and a duplicate folding plate (S5) supplied from a shorter copy, numerous smaller geometrical or proportional woodcut diagrams, some of heads, arms, hands and feet, fraktur initials, flourished woodcut tail-piece ornaments. (Title remargined at foot, mounted on guard, small, old paper repair to next leaf and a few other repairs, some light browning and spotting, light thumbstaining in lower corner, three folding plates repaired, slightly affecting images.) Modern brown goatskin, paper title label.
FIRST EDITION. 'Written, designed and illustrated by Dürer, the posthumous Vier bücher was the first work to discuss the problems of comparative and differential anthropometry. Dürer held that the essence of true form was the primary mathematical figure (e.g., straight line, circle, curve, conic section) constructed arithmetically or geometrically, and made beautiful by the application of a canon of proportion. However, he was also convinced that beauty of form was a relative and not an absolute quality; thus the purpose of his system of anthropometry was to provide the artist with the means to delineate, on the basis of sheer measurement, all possible types of human figures' (Norman). Bohatta 17; Choulant-Frank, pp. 143-44; Garrison-Morton 149; NLM/Durling 1295; Stillwell Science 622; Norman 666.
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