
The making of the Nuremberg chronicle. Adrian Wilson assisted by Joyce Lancaster Wilson. Introduction by Peter Zahn.
[Schedel, Hartmann (1440-1514)].
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Amsterdam, Nico Israel, 1978. Folio. 255, (1) pp. Profusely illustrated. Publisher’s speckled dark grey cloth, white lettering to spine with a white vignette to the upper cover. Illustrated dust jacket with a few tears at lower backside margin, and some paper loss at upper outer corner, else a very good copy.
1 250 kr
First Edition, Second Printing. First published 1976. This is the first work in English on the entire production of an early illustrated book. The survival of page by page layouts for a book of the incunabula period, as well as the original contracts for its illustration,for its printing and for the allotment of profits and unsold books is unique to the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493.Contents:

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