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SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493.
Imperial 2° (430 x 300). Collation: [1-26 38 46 5-74 8-116 172 18-196 20-254 26-296 302 316 324 33-356 362 374 38-616] (1/1r xylographic title-page, 1/1v blank, 2/1r index, 4/1r Creation-Ultimate Age of the World, 54/6v blank, 55/1r Sarmatian supplement, 55/5v verse on the exploits of Maximilian, 55/6 blank, 56/1r supplements to the Sixth Age and description of Europe, 61/3v-4r map of Germany, 61/4v colophon, 61/5-6 blank). 325 leaves (without blank 55/6 and 61/5-6). 64 lines and headline, table and parts of text double column, fos. CCLVIIII-CCLXI blank except for printed headlines. Types: 9:165G (headlines and headings), 16:110.G (text). 1809 woodcut illustrations printed from 645 blocks (S.C. Cockerell's count, Some German woodcuts of the fifteenth century, 1897, pp.35-6), by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, including Albrecht Dürer, lombards, spaces left blank for larger initials. (Washed, tear in first leaf discreetly repaired without loss, occasional leaves very lightly browned, woodcut and text on Pope Joan (fo.CLXIXv) censored.) Modern cream morocco over thick wooden boards blindstamped in a 15th-century style, title gilt-stamped in gothic letters on front cover, brown suede doublures, 2 fore-edge clasps, edges gilt and gauffered, chemise of half brown morocco over wooden boards lined with brown suede, title lettered in blind on spine, slipcase of half brown morocco with wooden sides, by Brugalla, 1964.
FIRST EDITION. The Nuremberg Chronicle is the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th century, with over 1800 woodcuts. An elaborate manuscript exemplar, created to integrate text and illustration, survives, as do the contracts betwen Koberger and the artists responsible for the illustrations. Albrecht Dürer, godson of Koberger, was an apprentice to Wolgemut from 1486 to 1489 and almost certainly was involved in the production of the woodcuts. (See A. Wilson, The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle, Amsterdam: 1976). BMC II, 437 (IC. 7451-3); HC *14508; Polain(B) 3469; Schramm XVII, 6-7, 9; Schreiber 5203; Goff S-307.
Imperial 2° (430 x 300). Collation: [1-26 38 46 5-74 8-116 172 18-196 20-254 26-296 302 316 324 33-356 362 374 38-616] (1/1r xylographic title-page, 1/1v blank, 2/1r index, 4/1r Creation-Ultimate Age of the World, 54/6v blank, 55/1r Sarmatian supplement, 55/5v verse on the exploits of Maximilian, 55/6 blank, 56/1r supplements to the Sixth Age and description of Europe, 61/3v-4r map of Germany, 61/4v colophon, 61/5-6 blank). 325 leaves (without blank 55/6 and 61/5-6). 64 lines and headline, table and parts of text double column, fos. CCLVIIII-CCLXI blank except for printed headlines. Types: 9:165G (headlines and headings), 16:110.G (text). 1809 woodcut illustrations printed from 645 blocks (S.C. Cockerell's count, Some German woodcuts of the fifteenth century, 1897, pp.35-6), by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, including Albrecht Dürer, lombards, spaces left blank for larger initials. (Washed, tear in first leaf discreetly repaired without loss, occasional leaves very lightly browned, woodcut and text on Pope Joan (fo.CLXIXv) censored.) Modern cream morocco over thick wooden boards blindstamped in a 15th-century style, title gilt-stamped in gothic letters on front cover, brown suede doublures, 2 fore-edge clasps, edges gilt and gauffered, chemise of half brown morocco over wooden boards lined with brown suede, title lettered in blind on spine, slipcase of half brown morocco with wooden sides, by Brugalla, 1964.
FIRST EDITION. The Nuremberg Chronicle is the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th century, with over 1800 woodcuts. An elaborate manuscript exemplar, created to integrate text and illustration, survives, as do the contracts betwen Koberger and the artists responsible for the illustrations. Albrecht Dürer, godson of Koberger, was an apprentice to Wolgemut from 1486 to 1489 and almost certainly was involved in the production of the woodcuts. (See A. Wilson, The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle, Amsterdam: 1976). BMC II, 437 (IC. 7451-3); HC *14508; Polain(B) 3469; Schramm XVII, 6-7, 9; Schreiber 5203; Goff S-307.