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WOODBLOCK. [Christ stills the wind and the waves. Netherlands?, ca 1480? or early 19th century].
Engraved woodblock, 195 x 130 mm; cloth folding case. Provenance: acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1988.
This woodblock along with 37 other woodblocks, perhaps intended for a late 15th-century edition of Plenarium, was not printed until the early 19th century. "The history of the blocks from the 15th to the late 18th century is not traceable, but it seems unlikely that they were ever printed, if they were, no trace of the printing has survived. It is clear that there were at least three early 19th-century issues of the blocks" (Feather). An article by John Buchanan Brown is included with the lot in the same cloth folding case: "A Forged Series of Woodcuts?" in: The Library, Fifth Series, Volume XXIX, Oxford, 1974, p.165ff. John Feather "Thirty-Eight old Woodcuts. Some notes on an early 19th-century block-book" in The Book Collector, Autumn, 1977.
Engraved woodblock, 195 x 130 mm; cloth folding case. Provenance: acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1988.
This woodblock along with 37 other woodblocks, perhaps intended for a late 15th-century edition of Plenarium, was not printed until the early 19th century. "The history of the blocks from the 15th to the late 18th century is not traceable, but it seems unlikely that they were ever printed, if they were, no trace of the printing has survived. It is clear that there were at least three early 19th-century issues of the blocks" (Feather). An article by John Buchanan Brown is included with the lot in the same cloth folding case: "A Forged Series of Woodcuts?" in: The Library, Fifth Series, Volume XXIX, Oxford, 1974, p.165ff. John Feather "Thirty-Eight old Woodcuts. Some notes on an early 19th-century block-book" in The Book Collector, Autumn, 1977.