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JACOBUS DE VORAGINE (c.1230-c.1298). Passionael, of die Gulden Legende. Antwerp: Henrick Eckert, 22 March, 20 May 1505.
2 parts in one volume, 2° (265 x 181mm). 207 (of 208, without blank ff8); 214 leaves. 41 lines, double column. Xylographic and letterpress title with large woodcut to part I, xylographic title with large woodcut within 4-part border to part II, and 201 WOODCUTS COLOURED BY AN EARLY HAND, comprising 84 (65 column-size, 11 quarter-page either within ¾ border or flanked by 2 architectural cuts, and 8 half-page) woodcuts in part I and 117 (100 column-size, 4 quarter-page with either border or flanking cuts, 13 half-page) woodcuts in part II, 2- to 7-line initials in red. (11 leaves with a little loss, small hole in one leaf with loss of a few letters, several marginal repairs, occasional staining.) Late 19th-century brown morocco tooled reminiscent of a gothic style, speckled edges (very slightly rubbed). Provenance: Thomas Edward Watson (bookplate; by descent to the present owners).
Eckert's second edition, with the influential woodcuts by the second Delft woodcutter. After their first appearance in a 1487 edition of the Passionael, printed at Delft by Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer (IDL 2588), they were used in later Delft editions, and in Eckert's Antwerp editions (Conway, Woodcutters of the Netherlands, p.117). Twenty-eight blocks of the original series were replaced in the 1489 edition, and, with two exceptions, they remained in the series used by Eckert. The title woodcut to part one is a direct copy from Leeu's 1487 Ludolphus (Goff L-353). ALL DUTCH EDITIONS ARE RARE ON THE MARKET. Davies Murray German, 436; Nijhoff-Kronenberg 1193; BLSTC Dutch p.115 (4826.f.1).
2 parts in one volume, 2° (265 x 181mm). 207 (of 208, without blank ff8); 214 leaves. 41 lines, double column. Xylographic and letterpress title with large woodcut to part I, xylographic title with large woodcut within 4-part border to part II, and 201 WOODCUTS COLOURED BY AN EARLY HAND, comprising 84 (65 column-size, 11 quarter-page either within ¾ border or flanked by 2 architectural cuts, and 8 half-page) woodcuts in part I and 117 (100 column-size, 4 quarter-page with either border or flanking cuts, 13 half-page) woodcuts in part II, 2- to 7-line initials in red. (11 leaves with a little loss, small hole in one leaf with loss of a few letters, several marginal repairs, occasional staining.) Late 19th-century brown morocco tooled reminiscent of a gothic style, speckled edges (very slightly rubbed). Provenance: Thomas Edward Watson (bookplate; by descent to the present owners).
Eckert's second edition, with the influential woodcuts by the second Delft woodcutter. After their first appearance in a 1487 edition of the Passionael, printed at Delft by Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer (IDL 2588), they were used in later Delft editions, and in Eckert's Antwerp editions (Conway, Woodcutters of the Netherlands, p.117). Twenty-eight blocks of the original series were replaced in the 1489 edition, and, with two exceptions, they remained in the series used by Eckert. The title woodcut to part one is a direct copy from Leeu's 1487 Ludolphus (Goff L-353). ALL DUTCH EDITIONS ARE RARE ON THE MARKET. Davies Murray German, 436; Nijhoff-Kronenberg 1193; BLSTC Dutch p.115 (4826.f.1).
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