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1522606091522. Nuremberg 1522. First edition. Nuremberg 1522. First edition. With a Full-Page Allegorical Frontispiece by Albrecht Durer Featuring Lady Justice Her First Appearance in a Book Nuremberg. Durer Albrecht 1471-1528. Reformacion der Stat Nuremberg. Nuremberg: Fridrichen Peypus 1522. xxxvi 30 208 ff. Folio 12" x 8" 30.5 x 20 cm. Contemporary panel-stamped reversed calf with traces of gilt stamping early repairs to spine ends clasps present and intact endpapers renewed at some point. Some rubbing to extremities chipping to head of spine a few scuffs and stains to boards small crack to front joint rear hinge cracked due to worming minor worming to fol. 208. Allegorical frontispiece by Durer featuring Lady Justice and a female figure representing charity attractive woodcut decorated initials throughout. Light toning to text some leaves lightly browned faint stains and foxing to a few leaves wide margins. "1522/ jahre" to title page in near-contemporary hand interior otherwise clean. $12500. First edition and only edition with Durer's frontispiece which includes an image of Lady Justice. This was the first time her image appeared in a book. Nuremberg was the center of the Renaissance in Germany and was its leading cultural and intellectual center until the end of the sixteenth century. These qualities are reflected in the contents and design of this volume. Enacted in 1479 the Reformacion or Reformed Civic Legal Code of Nuremberg is known for its humanistic orientation straightforward language and elegant production. It is also notable as the collection of German city laws to be issued in print. The 1522 issue by Peypus is notable for its splendid full-page frontispiece by the great Nuremberg artist Albrecht Durer which was originally issued as an independent print in 1521. The bottom half depicts two putti displaying the arms of the city and empire. The upper half depicts Lady Justice holding scales and a sword and a female figure representing charity who is pouring coins from a purse and opening her bodice to bear her heart which is represented by a flame. The woodcut initials are finely carved and possibly the work of Durer or his workshop. OCLC locates 4 copies in North America 1 in a law library Harvard. Verzeichnis der im Deutschen Sprachraum Erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts N2027. Meder Dure. unknown books
1505008110Paris: Jodocus Badius Ascensius Josse Badius 1505. Leaf. Very Good. The leaf is approximately 5.25" x 8". Each woodcut is approximately 85 x 115 mm. The woodcuts have dark crisp impressions. The leaf has some minor marginal toning. It is a very nice example of one of Dürer's earliest woodcut designs. Thirteen editions were published between 1494 and 1521 six authorized and seven pirated. <br /><br />Leaves from these editions are very easily confused and many later printings are often listed as firsts; in all but the very first edition the woodcuts were done by other craftsmen based on Dürer's original designs. <br /><br />This leaf is from the second Latin edition. It contains two woodcuts most leaves only have one featuring Dürer's fools who always wear cowls with ass-ears and a coxcomb of bells a convention Dürer established. <br /><br />The first woodcut "The Teaching of Wisdom" illustrates both wise men and fools reacting to a sermon. The reverse "Stroking a Fallow Stallion" is depiction of a fool being trampled by a horse he feigned to respect which symbolizers the ultimate fate of false flatters. <br /><br />One of the most famous and popular works during the early years of printing <i>The Ship of Fools</i> was a satire on the many then-current ecclesiastical abuses as exemplified by Brant's imaginary character Saint Grobian the patron saint of vulgarity and coarse manners. A substantial part of <i>The Ship of Fools' </i>popularity was no doubt due to its marvelous woodcut illustrations most of which were created by Albrecht Dürer then a young journeyman woodcut designer working in Basel. Art historians note that his work in these woodcuts Dürer's first significant commissioned effort is not as impressive as his later efforts as a master in Nuremberg; e.g. the hatching consists of only simple parallel lines and contours are crude thick and without much variation. Still they are superior to other illustrations in the book designed by an assortment of masters. <br /><br /> Jodocus Badius Ascensius (Josse Badius) books
1971497451971. TERENCE. A Comedy of Terence called Andria. Translated into English by Robert Bernard. 118 pp. Illustrated with 25 woodcuts after original drawings by Albrecht Dürer. Folio 347 x 250 mm bound in original half vellum in cloth slipcase. Verona: Officina Bodoni Press 1971. One of an edition of 170 copies of which 10 were hors commerce. The original designs were made by Dürer for an edition of Terence that was never realized; the unpublished illustrations remained in the Kunstmuseum at Basel. The woodblocks for this edition were cut in pear-wood by Fritz Kredel after copies of the Dürer originals. The text is a somewhat modernized version of the first English translation of Andria. Mardersteig 176. Barr 87. hardcover books
1971527271971. TERENCE. Andria: A Comedy by Terence. 122 4 pp. Folio 347 x 250 mm bound in beige paper boards backed in vellum title gilt on spine t.e.g. in green cloth slipcase. Verona: Officina Bodoni 1971. One of 160 copies. This edition brings to fruition one part of an illustrated edition of Terence that was planned by Basel printer Johann Amerbach in 1493. A number of illustrations for Amerbach's edition were completed by Albrecht Durer before the project was eventually abandoned. For the Bodoni edition of Andria Terence's first comedy twenty five of Durer's illustrations for the Amerbach Terence were copied and cut by engraver Fritz Kredel. The text is based on Richard Bernard's English translation which was first published in 1598. Set in Dante type and pressed on Fratelli Magnani paper. A pristine copy. hardcover books
1968CNBR150Kentfield California: The Allen Press 1968. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Durer Albrecht. One of 140 copies folio size 34 leaves unnumbered with original prospectus folded in original hand-addresed mailing envelope. The thirty-second limited edition from The Allen Press and the first printed on their 1846 Columbian handpress. Terence circa 195 - 159 B.C. was and has remained a popular playwright "The Brothers" considered to be one of his greatest plays being "not only a delightful and clever comedy but also a fine study of human nature. Proof of the timelessness of Terence's genius lies in the fact that over 400 manuscripts of his plays survive today and many of his plots have been purloined by successive generations of playwrights." This is the first edition of "The Brothers" illustrated by Durer. "Although there were about forty Terence editions previous to 1500 humanist scholars strongly objected to illustrations for the classics. So it was not until 1493 that the first was issued: 150 woodcuts in the edition printed by Johann Treschel at Lyon France. <br/><br/>It is one of the most beautiful illustrated books of the fifteenth-century; but its editor Johann Badius tried to soften the innovation by declaring that the pictures were added to assist the illiterate." The coincidence which made the present edition possible is that "Johann Amerbach of Basel unaware that the Treschel edition was underway began a similar edition by commissioning the young genius Albrecht Durer at age 20 to design 150 illustrative woodcuts one for every scene of the drama. However when the drawings were completed but only a few blocks cut the Lyon edition appeared and the Basel project abandoned." Durer's work survived and is preserved at the Kunstmuseum Basel where Lewis and Dorothy Allen first studied the mostly ink drawings of white-grounded wood blocks work in 1965. The director of the museum generously provided them with permission to reproduce the drawings and provided high resolution photos. George Lewis "photographically eliminated" the considerable erosion worm holes and mildew and metal plates were made of the twenty-seven illustrations for this edition "their first book use."<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Quarter decorative German woven fabric and sienna-brown all-rag Italian paper covered boards with a pictorial title to the upper board teal endpapers fore- and tail-edges uncut pictorial title-page printed in black woodcut heads are printed in brown chapter numbers are printed in blue-green throughout with twenty-seven illustrations based on Durer drawings used here for the first time as book illustrations for a Terence play; hand-set Unciala type the first appearance in an American book all-rag paper made at the Wookey Hole mill in England to the specifications of the press with their watermark folio size 13.25" by 8 7/8" 34 unnumbered leaves limited edition one of 140 copies. With prospectus folded in original hand-addressed mailing envelope in a matching paper slipcase.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy; the binding clean and unrubbed the binding tight with solid hinges the interior clean and bright and free of prior owner markings; clean crisp as new. The slipcase also fine strong and sturdy clean overall with the hint of a stray mark or two without wear; the prospectus fine with only original folds its original mailing envelope near fine some light dustiness a hand-written notation on the back "ordered 3/16/68".<br/><br/>___CITATION: The Allen Press Bibliography no.32.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Allen Press hardcover books
