Biblioteca Particular
Lot 14:
ESSLING (Prince d’)
LES LIVRES a Figures Vénitiens de la fin du XVe Siècle et du Commencement du XVIe. Mansfield: Mauricio Martino Publisher, s.d..
6 v.: il.; 310 mm.
Facsimile reprint, in a limited edition of 350 copies of this work printed in Florence and Paris between 1907-1914.
This is a remarkable and indispensable reference work describing over 2,500 Venetian woodcut-illustrated prints published between 1469 and 1525. It includes complete collations, descriptions of the woodcut illustrations (over 2,000 of which are reproduced at full scale), extensive annotations, indications of known examples, and a valuable essay on the history of Italian book illustration.
The appendices present reproductions of type marks, indexes of printers, engravers, names, titles and illustrations, as well as a chronological index of the publications described. The final volume also includes the rare Supplément au… les missels imprimés à Venise de 1481 à 1600 originally printed in 1915.
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