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1890021220New York: Frederick A. Stokes and Brother 1890. First Edition. Cloth. Good. Folio. First edition #430 of 1000 clothbound books issued. Signed by the publisher on the copyright page. White cloth with extensive gilt decorations along with gridded cloth. Large folio. Unpaginated. 10 photogravures of paintings throughout. A look at various depictions of the Madonna by Old Masters accompanied by critical and historical commentary. GOOD condition. Moderate scuffing and toning to the covers with some soiling and staining. A few small wormholes in the front cover. Text block weak with some pages slightly loose in the binding. One plate rather foxed. Text block toned. Frederick A. Stokes and Brother unknown
185019531850. Steel-engraving. 270mm by 175mm sheet 125mm by 100mm image. Sir Thomas More 1478 - 1535 was an English lawyer social philosopher author statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important councillor to Henry VIII of England and was Lord Chancellor from October 1529 to 1532. He was an opponent of the Protestant Reformation and in particular of Martin Luther and William Tyndale. unknown
1821038120London 1821. 1st Edition 1st Printing. No Binding. Near Fine. Original Engraving. One Of A Large Collection Of Original Antique Engravings Formed By A Southern California Artist In The Early To Middle Twentieth Century. Each Plate Has Small Glue Marks On Reverse Where They Were Tipped In To An Album.Charles Pye Jr. 1777 - 1870 Was An Engraver In England. His Engraving Work Was Included In Cadell & Davies' "Britannia Depicta". <br/> <br/> unknown
1803FB5537 /4D<p>Red leather binding with raised banding gilt decoration and title on the spine. Gilt 'Cambridge panel' on the boards.</p><p>"Descriptions of each plate in French and English with the Scripture Text from which the designs were taken. Printed by W. Smith and Co. King Street Seven Dials for John Scott No. 447 Strand: & Thomas Ostell No. 3 Ave Maria Lane 1803". Engraved frontispiece engraved title engraved portrait of Holbein. Full leather cover with embossed design and gilt decoration. This is a very hard to find rare book.</p><p>Note: this book is lovingly reset in its original papers by the expert bookbinder Brian Cole. It is again in fantastic condition which ought to see out a further two hundred years.</p><p>The Dance of Death 1493 by Michael Wolgemut from the Nuremberg Chronicle of Hartmann Schedel</p><p>The Danse Macabre also called the Dance of Death is an artistic genre of allegory from the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death.</p><p>The Danse Macabre consists of the dead or a personification of death summoning representatives from all walks of life to dance along to the grave typically with a pope emperor king child and laborer. The effect is both frivolous and terrifying beseeching its audience to react emotionally. It was produced as memento mori to remind people of the fragility of their lives and how vain the glories of earthly life. Its origins are postulated from illustrated sermon texts; the earliest recorded visual scheme apart from 14th century Triumph of Death paintings was a now-lost mural at Holy Innocents' Cemetery in Paris dating from 1424 to 1425.</p><p>Hans Holbein the Younger Hans Holbein der Jüngere; c. 1497 – between 7 October and 29 November 1543 was a German-Swiss painter and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style and is considered one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He also produced religious art satire and Reformation propaganda and he made a significant contribution to the history of book design. He is called "the Younger" to distinguish him from his father Hans Holbein the Elder an accomplished painter of the Late Gothic school.</p><p>Holbein was born in Augsburg but worked mainly in Basel as a young artist. At first he painted murals and religious works and designed stained glass windows and illustrations for books from the printer Johann Froben. He also painted an occasional portrait making his international mark with portraits of humanist Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. When the Reformation reached Basel Holbein worked for reformist clients while continuing to serve traditional religious patrons. His Late Gothic style was enriched by artistic trends in Italy France and the Netherlands as well as by Renaissance humanism. The result was a combined aesthetic uniquely his own.</p><p>Holbein travelled to England in 1526 in search of work with a recommendation from Erasmus. He was welcomed into the humanist circle of Thomas More where he quickly built a high reputation. He returned to Basel for four years then resumed his career in England in 1532 under the patronage of Anne Boleyn and Thomas Cromwell. By 1535 he was King's Painter to Henry VIII of England. In this role he produced portraits and festive decorations as well as designs for jewellery plate and other precious objects. His portraits of the royal family and nobles are a record of the court in the years when Henry was asserting his supremacy over the Church of England.</p><p>Holbein's art was prized from early in his career. French poet and reformer Nicholas Bourbon the elder dubbed him "the Apelles of our time" a typical accolade at the time. Holbein has also been described as a great "one-off" in art history since he founded no school. Some of his work was lost after his death but much was collected and he was recognized among the great portrait masters by the 19th century. Recent exhibitions have also highlighted his versatility. He created designs ranging from intricate jewellery to monumental frescoes.</p><p>Holbein's art has sometimes been called realist since he drew and painted with a rare precision. His portraits were renowned in their time for their likeness and it is through his eyes that many famous figures of his day are pictured today such as Erasmus and More. He was never content with outward appearance however; he embedded layers of symbolism allusion and paradox in his art to the lasting fascination of scholars. In the view of art historian Ellis Waterhouse his portraiture "remains unsurpassed for sureness and economy of statement penetration into character and a combined richness and purity of style'.</p><p>Renowned for his Dance of Death series the famous designs by Hans Holbein the Younger 1497–1543 were drawn in 1526 while he was in Basel. They were cut in wood by the accomplished Formschneider block cutter Hans Lützelburger.</p><p>William Ivins quoting W. J. Linton writes of Lützelburger's work wrote:</p><p>"'Nothing indeed by knife or by graver is of higher quality than this man's doing.' For by common acclaim the originals are technically the most marvelous woodcuts ever made."</p><p>These woodcuts soon appeared in proofs with titles in German. The first book edition containing forty-one woodcuts was published at Lyons by the Treschsel brothers in 1538. The popularity of the work and the currency of its message are underscored by the fact that there were eleven editions before 1562 and over the sixteenth century perhaps as many as a hundred unauthorized editions and imitations. Ten further designs were added in later editions.</p><p>The Dance of Death 1523–26 refashions the late-medieval allegory of the Danse Macabre as a reformist satire and one can see the beginnings of a gradual shift from traditional to reformed Christianity. That shift had many permutations however and in a study Natalie Zemon Davis has shown that the contemporary reception and afterlife of Holbein's designs lent themselves to neither purely Catholic or Protestant doctrine but could be outfitted with different surrounding prefaces and sermons as printers and writers of different political and religious leanings took them up. Most importantly "The pictures and the Bible quotations above them were the main attractions … Both Catholics and Protestants wished through the pictures to turn men's thoughts to a Christian preparation for death.".</p><p>The 1538 edition which contained Latin quotations from the Bible above Holbein's designs and a French quatrain below composed by Gilles Corrozet 1510–1568 actually did not credit Holbein as the artist. It bore the title: Les simulachres & / HISTORIEES FACES / DE LA MORT AUTANT ELE/gammēt pourtraictes que artifi/ciellement imaginées. / A Lyon. / Soubz l'escu de COLOIGNE. / M.D. XXXVIII. "Images and Illustrated facets of Death as elegantly depicted as they are artfully conceived." These images and workings of death as captured in the phrase "histories faces" of the title "are the particular exemplification of the way death works the individual scenes in which the lessons of mortality are brought home to people of every station."</p> John Scott & Thomas Ostell. hardcover
18036498London: John Scott and Thomas Ostell 1803. Half-Leather. Collectible; Very Good. The 1803 1st "John Scott" edition with the 36 remarkable Holbein copper-plates and further etched by David Deuchar. A dual text edition with the descriptions of each plate in both French and English. Bound in half period-calf over marbled boards. A degree of scuffing and wear at the leather notable chipping and label loss at the spine. Light foxing at specific points in the text but the plates are clean and bright and have held up very nicely. In spite of the forgivable flaws still sturdy and VG-. 12mo painted by Holbein in the Town House of Basil. John Scott and Thomas Ostell unknown
182028721820. Copper-line engraving. 360mm by 230mm platemark. Sir Thomas Smythe or Smith 1558-1625 was an English merchant politician and colonial administrator. He was the first governor of the East India Company and treasurer of the Virginia Company from 1609 to 1620 until enveloped by scandal. From Houbraken's series of portrait engravings set within elaborate cartouches titled 'The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain'. They were published by Knapton originally C1740 this impression is c1820. Jacobus Houbraken was a Dutch line engraver who is known best for this series of portraits. unknown
1803985London: W. Smith and Co. 1803. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good condition. "Descriptions of each plate in French and English with the Scripture Text from which the designs were taken. Printed by W. Smith and Co. King Street Seven Dials for John Scott No. 447 Strand: & Thomas Ostell No. 3 Ave Maria Lane 1803". Engraved frontispiece engraved title engraved portrait of Holbein. All gilt edges full leather cover with embossed design and gilt decoration. Foxing or spotting evident to many pages but is generally light. Note that two editions were printed this same year the other printed by Gosnell. Leather cover shows some slight corner wear cover wear and top of spine heavily worn. This is a very hard to find rare book. W. Smith and Co. hardcover
18587880CB1858. Uttweil am Bodensee und Stuttgart Conrad Uhler 1858. 8°. VIII S. Mit 48 Tafeln von Christian Mechel nach Hans Holbein. Goldgeprägter Orig.-Leinenband. Der Text von C. Weiss. Die letzten beiden Tafeln lose. Das Papier im Rand leicht gebräunt. Der Einbandrücken verblichen. unknown
18842059London: Hamilton Adams 1884. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good hardcover red leather spine and corners over marbled boards. Wear to lower edge of covers some starting separation over cover at lower spine area but not just weak. Glit edges on all sides. Pictures on request oversize item will require extra postage Hamilton, Adams hardcover
185816035London:: Henry G. Bohn 1858. 7.5 x 4.75 inches. Single leaf from the 1858 edition of Hans Holbeins Dance of Death by Francis Douce & Thomas Frognall Dibdin. The leaf portrays the angel Gabriel comforting Daniel - Daniel VIII:17. with text lines beneath. Excellent woodblock and leaf in excellent condition. Top corners with a little bit of bleed from previous adhesive on verso overall excellent and suitable for framing. 7.5 x 4.75 inches. The reproduction fomr the Douce & Dibdin were cut from wood by Messrs. Bonner and Byfield. The authors aimed to provide extremely accurate woodcut representations of the original Holbein designs to readers. This leaf shows the clarity of line and beautiful use of light and shade which Holbein had achieved in his original work . [Henry G. Bohn,] unknown
1832233834München 1832. 53 lithographs on tissue tipped in. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full brown morocco a.e.g. Very good. Bookplate of Van Nest. 53 lithographs on tissue tipped in. 1 vols. 8vo. unknown
1879057FR1A. Quantin 1879. 1879 pp. 201 27 Wonderful engraved plates. Illustrated with 49 gravures in the text fleurons ornamental letters and culs-de-lampes engraved after Holbein. Folio. 47 cm. Soiled original full cloth binding. Includes the important "Catalogue des Peintures de Holbein" pp. 185-194 and bibliographical references. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497-1543 was born in Augsburg Bavaria. He received his first lessons in art from his father. In 1515 the younger Holbein went to Basel Switzerland with his brother Ambrosius. Among the many scholars living in Basel at that time was the famous Dutch humanist Erasmus who befriended the young artist and asked him to illustrate his satire Encomium Moriae The Praise of Folly. Holbein also illustrated other books including Martin Luther's German translation of the Bible. In addition he painted pictures and portraits and like his father designed stained-glass windows. He also created designs for a series of 41 woodcuts called The Dance of Death. About 1525 the factional strife that accompanied the Reformation made Basel a difficult place for an artist to work. In 1526 Holbein carrying a letter of introduction from Erasmus to the English statesman and author Sir Thomas More set out for London. He met with a favorable reception in England and stayed there for two years. In 1528 he returned to Basel where he painted portraits and murals for the town hall. In 1532 he left his wife and children there and traveled once again to London. In England where he became court painter to Henry VIII Holbein was known chiefly as a painter of portraits. His services were much in demand. The more than 100 miniature and full-size portraits he completed at Henry's court provide a remarkable document of that colorful period. An old account of his services at court relates that he painted the portrait of the king "life size so well that everyone who looks is astonished since it seems to live as if it moved its head and limbs." In spite of their richness of detail Holbein's portraits provide remarkably little insight into the personality and character of the people he painted. Holbein also found time to perform numerous services for Henry. He designed the king's state robes and made drawings that were the basis of all kinds of items used by the royal household from buttons to bridles to bookbindings. In 1539 when Henry was thinking of marrying Anne of Cleves he sent Holbein to paint her portrait. In 1543 Holbein was in London working on another portrait of the king when he died a victim of the plague. FIRST EDITION. FR1 Language: eng. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A. Quantin, 1879. hardcover
181273591London: John Chamberlaine 1812. Bartolozzi developed his style to imitate the subtleties of renaissance and baroque chalk drawings and became deservedly famous for his stipple engraving. The portraits in this collection show how effective this technique was in reproducing with such incredible fidelity Holbein's original designs. Engraved by BARTOLOZZI Francesco in IMITATIONS OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY HANS HOLBEIN IN THE COLLECTION OF HIS MAJESTY FOR THE PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONS OF THE COURT OF HENRY VIII. WITH BIOGRAPHICAL TRACTS. Stipple engraving. Printed colour. Size: 333 x 250 mm Fine condition. unknown
181273585London: John Chamberlaine 1812. Bartolozzi developed his style to imitate the subtleties of renaissance and baroque chalk drawings and became deservedly famous for his stipple engraving. The portraits in this collection show how effective this technique was in reproducing with such incredible fidelity Holbein's original designs. Engraved by BARTOLOZZI Francesco in IMITATIONS OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY HANS HOLBEIN IN THE COLLECTION OF HIS MAJESTY FOR THE PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONS OF THE COURT OF HENRY VIII. WITH BIOGRAPHICAL TRACTS. Stipple engraving. Printed colour. Size: 333 x 250 mm Fine condition. unknown
185617837Paris: Edwin Tross. Very Good. 1856. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Bright clean red cloth binding with gilt decoration & lettering. Text tight & intact: binding solid. Unpaginated. Written in Latin & French. Various scenes illustrating the universality of death no matter one's station in life are engraved in the historiated woodcut borders & letters. Hans Holbein 1497-1543 created his Alphabet of Death at a time when the Latin alphabet did not distinguish between I and J or U and V. The separation into vowels and consonants came after the Renaissance. De Montaiglon's preface notes that Holbein's alphabet has only twenty-four letters. Early owner's bookplate. Toning on endpapers only. Poetry Art; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall . Edwin Tross hardcover
181273601London: John Chamberlaine 1812. Bartolozzi developed his style to imitate the subtleties of renaissance and baroque chalk drawings and became deservedly famous for his stipple engraving. The portraits in this collection show how effective this technique was in reproducing with such incredible fidelity Holbein's original designs. Engraved by BARTOLOZZI Francesco in IMITATIONS OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY HANS HOLBEIN IN THE COLLECTION OF HIS MAJESTY FOR THE PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONS OF THE COURT OF HENRY VIII. WITH BIOGRAPHICAL TRACTS. Stipple engraving. Printed colour. Size: 333 x 250 mm Fine condition. unknown
182843911London: Printed by William Bulmer and Co. Shakspeare Printing Office 1828. folio 35x 25cm The Second Edition not paginated WITH: 84 hand-coloured portrait engravings with tissue guards 80 listed biography following each portrait plate In contemporary half dark crimson morocco gilt ruled raised bands full gilt decorations in the panels gilt block titles marbled boards and end papers early rebacked with inner linen hinges top edge gilt some slight shelf wear on the boards and some wear on the marble board edges the first two plates are foxed several other plates have slight occasion foxing. Very Good to Fine. Hans Holbein the Younger served in England for two periods the first 1526 to 1528 under the patronage of Thomas More and Anne Boleyn and the second period 1532 to 1540 becoming King's Painter to Henry VIII. This massive tome displays 84 Holbein portraits painted during this period including Anne Boleyn Anne of Cleeve Catherine Howard Sir Thomas More Jane Seymour Thomas Cromwell Edward Prince of Wales Queen Mary William Warham Archbishop of Canterbury and many other courtiers and nobles. 80 portraits are listed but also included are a self-portrait of Holbein and another of his wife as frontispieces and two miniatures of Charles and Henry sons of Charles Brandon Earl of Suffolk. The portraits are remarkable for their precision with many of the portraits being fixed images for posterity. Note this first twelve plates do not have the biographical plate text. Printed by William Bulmer and Co., Shakspeare Printing Office unknown
181273604London: John Chamberlaine 1812. Bartolozzi developed his style to imitate the subtleties of renaissance and baroque chalk drawings and became deservedly famous for his stipple engraving. The portraits in this collection show how effective this technique was in reproducing with such incredible fidelity Holbein's original designs. Engraved by BARTOLOZZI Francesco in IMITATIONS OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY HANS HOLBEIN IN THE COLLECTION OF HIS MAJESTY FOR THE PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONS OF THE COURT OF HENRY VIII. WITH BIOGRAPHICAL TRACTS. Stipple engraving. Printed colour. Size: 333 x 250 mm Fine condition. unknown
181273615London: John Chamberlaine 1812. Bartolozzi developed his style to imitate the subtleties of renaissance and baroque chalk drawings and became deservedly famous for his stipple engraving. The portraits in this collection show how effective this technique was in reproducing with such incredible fidelity Holbein's original designs. Engraved by BARTOLOZZI Francesco in IMITATIONS OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY HANS HOLBEIN IN THE COLLECTION OF HIS MAJESTY FOR THE PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONS OF THE COURT OF HENRY VIII. WITH BIOGRAPHICAL TRACTS. Stipple engraving. Printed colour. Size: 333 x 250 mm Good condition. unknown
181273606London: John Chamberlaine 1812. Bartolozzi developed his style to imitate the subtleties of renaissance and baroque chalk drawings and became deservedly famous for his stipple engraving. The portraits in this collection show how effective this technique was in reproducing with such incredible fidelity Holbein's original designs. Engraved by BARTOLOZZI Francesco in IMITATIONS OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY HANS HOLBEIN IN THE COLLECTION OF HIS MAJESTY FOR THE PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONS OF THE COURT OF HENRY VIII. WITH BIOGRAPHICAL TRACTS. Stipple engraving. Printed colour. Size: 333 x 250 mm Fine condition. unknown
181273587London: John Chamberlaine 1812. Bartolozzi developed his style to imitate the subtleties of renaissance and baroque chalk drawings and became deservedly famous for his stipple engraving. The portraits in this collection show how effective this technique was in reproducing with such incredible fidelity Holbein's original designs. Engraved by BARTOLOZZI Francesco in IMITATIONS OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY HANS HOLBEIN IN THE COLLECTION OF HIS MAJESTY FOR THE PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONS OF THE COURT OF HENRY VIII. WITH BIOGRAPHICAL TRACTS. Stipple engraving. Printed colour. Size: 333 x 250 mm Fine condition. unknown
1856193907Paris: Edwin Tross 1856. Paperback. Good Boards are shelf/edgeworn foxed and smudged; spine strip is loosening and chipped at the edges; signature is present on ffep; inner hinge is cracked at front and rear covers which are loose but still holding; textblock is cracked; textblock edges are darkened; pages are lightly smudged with occasional smudges. Brown boards with gilt lettering and illustration; 36 unnumbered pages; richly illustrated. This gorgeous book is richly illustrated with wood engravings throughout. Edwin Tross paperback
189212597London: George Bell & Sons. Fair with no dust jacket. 1892. Limited Edition. Hardcover. ii 18 ii pp 49 leaves. Limited edition of 500 copies of which this is one in Imperial 16mo. Signature of Harriet Monroe in pencil on the first free end paper. In original publisher's brown cloth with gilt title to front cover spine covering perished but binding holding. Red and black title page 49 copies of woodcuts and a facsimile of the original 1538 French title page. Forty-one of the woodcuts were according to Dobson cut 11 years before 1538 while the remaining 8 were added after that edition. Accompanying each woodcut is a verse in Latin with the antique French below it. Harriet Monroe 1860 1936 was an American editor scholar literary critic poet and patron of the arts and the founding publisher and long-time editor of Poetry magazine which she established in 1912. As a supporter of the poets Wallace Stevens Ezra Pound H. D. T. S. Eliot William Carlos Williams Carl Sandburg Max Michelson and others Monroe played an important role in the development of modern poetry. Interior is in good condition. The tissue protector for the title page is heavily browned and cracking away at the gutter the binding is a bit shaken but otherwise the book is clean and unmarked save for Monroe's signature and a small bibliographic note on the verso of that page. A scarce title nice with an early Monroe provenance. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall . George Bell & Sons hardcover
180428422<p><strong>1804 Dance of Death 1st edition Hans Holbein & Wenceslas Hollar Occult ART </strong></p><p>Wenceslaus Hollar first published his 30 copperplate adaptions of Hans Holbein's dark allegory of '<em>Dance of Death</em>' in 1651. The 1804 edition incorporates the 30 plates plus engravings of Holbein and Hollar and published at the waning of the gothic moment is most notable for its bold illustrated plates – the most famous of which is Hollar's "<em>The Dance of Death Procession</em>" originally engraved for a 1658 history of St. Paul's Cathedral. </p><p>Item number: #28422</p><p>Price: $950</p><p>HOLBEIN Hans</p><p><strong><em>The dance of death; from the original designs of Hans Holbein. Illustrated with thirty-three plates engraved by W. Hollar. With descriptions in English and French.</em></strong></p><p>London: printed by Whittingham for John Harding 1804. First edition.</p><p><u>Details</u>: </p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: Complete with all pages </p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->70 2</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->32 engravings</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: English</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Leather; tight & secure</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Size: ~8in X 5.25in 20cm x 13cm</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Very rare and desirable with auction records and price comparisons as high as $2500</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p><u>Photos available upon request. </u></p> Whittingham, for John Harding hardcover
1892009137London: George Bell and Sons 1892. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Imperial 16mo. One of 500 copies there were also 100 copies printed on Japanese vellum. Finely bound by Bayntun of Bath in half calf over brown buckram marbled end papers top edge gilt. Very Good lacking the labels calf rubbed at edges. With facsimile reproduction of title-page of original edition. Appended are 8 supplementary cuts added to later editions. Accompanying each cut is a related passage of Scripture in Latin with a quatrain giving its equivalent rendering in French probably by Gilles Corrozet. Copies of 41 woodcuts supposed to have been executed from Holbein's designs by Hans Lu¨tzelburger and originally published Lyons 1538. 2 preliminary leaves 18 pages 3 leaves : xlix plates illustrations facsimile. OCLC Number: 2813639. Uncommon in current commerce. George Bell and Sons Hardcover
