Accession number
PML 43638
Creator
Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550.
Published
Excusum Augustæ Vindelicorum : per Heynricum Steynerum, die 28 Februarij anno M. D. XXXI [28 February 1531].
Credit line
Purchased in 1952.
Notes
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: A-E⁸ F⁴, leaf F4 blank.
Title within woodcut border.
Numerous small woodcuts attributed to Jörg Breu; title border, and small border pieces flanking some of the cuts by Hans Weiditz. The emblem cuts have been wrongly attributed to Hans Schäufelein and to Hans Burgkmair -- c.f. Duplessis.
Signatures: A-E⁸ F⁴, leaf F4 blank.
Title within woodcut border.
Numerous small woodcuts attributed to Jörg Breu; title border, and small border pieces flanking some of the cuts by Hans Weiditz. The emblem cuts have been wrongly attributed to Hans Schäufelein and to Hans Burgkmair -- c.f. Duplessis.
Description
[44] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 17 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Francis Freeling (1764-1836), armorial bookplate (front pastedown), and letter from Dibdin to Freeling identifying the text, Nov. 1818 (tipped-in after front endleaf 2); Rev. Thomas Corser (1793-1876), his sale, Sotheby's, 28 July 1868, lot 355 for £8.18.6; Henry Huth (1815-1878), inherited by his son: Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), Ex Museo Huthii booklabel (front pastedown), Huth sale, Sotheby's, part I, 15 Nov. 1911, lot 89; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Davis & Oriol, July 1952.
Binding
18th/early 19th-century English calf.
Classification
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Department