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HUTTICH, Johannes (ca.1480-1544). Imperatorum et Caesarum vitae, cum imaginibus ad vivam effigiem expressis. Libellus auctus cum elencho & iconiis Consulum ab Authore. Strassburg: Wolfgang Köpfel [Cephalaeus] 1534.
Small 4° (185 x 125mm). 2 parts in one volume, printed in italic type, historiated woodcut title-border in part I, and with scenes from the Iliad in part II, large printer's device at the end of each part, 262 medallion portraits printed white on black in part I, and 84 in part II, the 'Elenchus' within white on black fine composite borders, (light waterstain in first 5 and last 2 leaves). 17th-century mottled calf, spine gilt (label lacking and spine a little rubbed). Provenance: Mod. Guilliet "achetté à Paris le 5.avril 1678. 3 ll".
First complete edition with the rare second part of the first medal book printed outside Italy. The medalion portraits are attributed to Hans Weiditz. They are largely based on images from coins from Julius Caesar to Emperor Maximilian. For the changes made in this edition and the various cuts attributed to Weiditz cf. Röttinger, Weiditz no.67. The influence of medal books on contemporary decorative art is discussed by E.P.Goldschmidt, The Printed Book of the Renaissance. Fairfax Murray German 219; Campbell Dodgson II, p.148.
Small 4° (185 x 125mm). 2 parts in one volume, printed in italic type, historiated woodcut title-border in part I, and with scenes from the Iliad in part II, large printer's device at the end of each part, 262 medallion portraits printed white on black in part I, and 84 in part II, the 'Elenchus' within white on black fine composite borders, (light waterstain in first 5 and last 2 leaves). 17th-century mottled calf, spine gilt (label lacking and spine a little rubbed). Provenance: Mod. Guilliet "achetté à Paris le 5.avril 1678. 3 ll".
First complete edition with the rare second part of the first medal book printed outside Italy. The medalion portraits are attributed to Hans Weiditz. They are largely based on images from coins from Julius Caesar to Emperor Maximilian. For the changes made in this edition and the various cuts attributed to Weiditz cf. Röttinger, Weiditz no.67. The influence of medal books on contemporary decorative art is discussed by E.P.Goldschmidt, The Printed Book of the Renaissance. Fairfax Murray German 219; Campbell Dodgson II, p.148.