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REFORMATION PAMPHLET – Das Alt und Nuw ewig Testament. [Speyer: Johann Eckhart, 1524].
A rare survival of this propaganda pamphlet illustrated by an unknown artist whose unpretentious yet charming style can be found in other publications by Eckhart. Similar to broadsheets, such small pamphlets were intended as instant news media rather than objects to be preserved. Only one auction record in 1966 (ABPC/RBH). USTC 26790; VD16 A-1970.
Quarto (193 x 141mm). 14 leaves, title within woodcut borders, 9 woodcut illustrations including repeats (faint leather tab trace on title, one wormhole touching a few letters). 19th-century Jansenist crushed brown morocco with plain sides, title lettered in gilt on spine, turn-ins richly gilt and signed Leighton, Brewer St [London] (faint discolouration). Provenance: Henry Howard (1628-1684), 6th Duke of Norfolk (ink stamp on title) – James P.R. Lyell, Oxford (1871-1949, solicitor, book collector and bibliographer; bookplate) – Schweinfurt, Otto Schäfer (monogram stamp).
A rare survival of this propaganda pamphlet illustrated by an unknown artist whose unpretentious yet charming style can be found in other publications by Eckhart. Similar to broadsheets, such small pamphlets were intended as instant news media rather than objects to be preserved. Only one auction record in 1966 (ABPC/RBH). USTC 26790; VD16 A-1970.
Quarto (193 x 141mm). 14 leaves, title within woodcut borders, 9 woodcut illustrations including repeats (faint leather tab trace on title, one wormhole touching a few letters). 19th-century Jansenist crushed brown morocco with plain sides, title lettered in gilt on spine, turn-ins richly gilt and signed Leighton, Brewer St [London] (faint discolouration). Provenance: Henry Howard (1628-1684), 6th Duke of Norfolk (ink stamp on title) – James P.R. Lyell, Oxford (1871-1949, solicitor, book collector and bibliographer; bookplate) – Schweinfurt, Otto Schäfer (monogram stamp).
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