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RINGMANN, Matthias (1482-1511), compiler. Passionis Christi unum ex quattuor evangelistis textum. [Strassburg: Johann Knobloch, 1506?]
2o (280 x 201 mm). Roman and gothic types. Collation: A-C6 D8. 30 leaves. 26 full-page woodcuts by Urs Graf, including one repeat, all but three signed with his monogram. (Some very pale spotting to first few leaves, marginal stain and small marginal repair on last leaf.) 19th-century gilt-paneled green morocco gilt, edges gilt (some light wear at extremities); two woodcuts on blue paper by Jacques Stella mounted on front and back free endpapers (cropped). Provenance: William Horatio Crawford of Lakelands (armorial bookplate); label of Breslauer and Meyer; acquired from Bennett & Marshall, 1971.
EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST EDITION of Matthias Ringmann's commentaries on the Passion of Christ, illustrated with twenty-six full page woodcuts by Urs Graf. "According to Richard Muther, this is the first series of woodcuts designed and cut by Graf, a series that he started in 1503 and refined over the three years it took him to find a publisher. In this edition, printed by Johann Knobloch in Strassburg, probably in 1506, the cut representing the Resurrection and the Visit to the Tomb is repeated. The final woodcut, representing the Man of Sorrows, appears in this and one other edition, being replaced in later editions by the Resurrection by Johann Wechtlin. The Rosenwald copy [and the present] of the book is complete, including the final leaf containing an epistle by Ringmann, which is sometimes missing" (Daniel De Simone, editor, A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books, New York, 2004, p. 144). This series of woodcuts was used again by Knobloch in another Latin edition published in 1508 and in two German-language editions of 1507 and 1509. Matthias Hupfuff and Johann Grüninger used them again in 1513, 1514 and 1515 and Antoine Vérard copied twenty-one of them for a 1512 edition of the passion. VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, no copies of the first edition have been sold at auction in at least fifty years. Kristeller 337; Major & Gradmann pp.6 and 38; Muther pp.190-193; Rosenwald 602. Fact and Fantasy 14.
2o (280 x 201 mm). Roman and gothic types. Collation: A-C6 D8. 30 leaves. 26 full-page woodcuts by Urs Graf, including one repeat, all but three signed with his monogram. (Some very pale spotting to first few leaves, marginal stain and small marginal repair on last leaf.) 19th-century gilt-paneled green morocco gilt, edges gilt (some light wear at extremities); two woodcuts on blue paper by Jacques Stella mounted on front and back free endpapers (cropped). Provenance: William Horatio Crawford of Lakelands (armorial bookplate); label of Breslauer and Meyer; acquired from Bennett & Marshall, 1971.
EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST EDITION of Matthias Ringmann's commentaries on the Passion of Christ, illustrated with twenty-six full page woodcuts by Urs Graf. "According to Richard Muther, this is the first series of woodcuts designed and cut by Graf, a series that he started in 1503 and refined over the three years it took him to find a publisher. In this edition, printed by Johann Knobloch in Strassburg, probably in 1506, the cut representing the Resurrection and the Visit to the Tomb is repeated. The final woodcut, representing the Man of Sorrows, appears in this and one other edition, being replaced in later editions by the Resurrection by Johann Wechtlin. The Rosenwald copy [and the present] of the book is complete, including the final leaf containing an epistle by Ringmann, which is sometimes missing" (Daniel De Simone, editor, A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books, New York, 2004, p. 144). This series of woodcuts was used again by Knobloch in another Latin edition published in 1508 and in two German-language editions of 1507 and 1509. Matthias Hupfuff and Johann Grüninger used them again in 1513, 1514 and 1515 and Antoine Vérard copied twenty-one of them for a 1512 edition of the passion. VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, no copies of the first edition have been sold at auction in at least fifty years. Kristeller 337; Major & Gradmann pp.6 and 38; Muther pp.190-193; Rosenwald 602. Fact and Fantasy 14.