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Biblische Figuren des Alten und Newen Testaments : gantz künstlich gerissen / durch den weitberhůmpten Vergilium Solis zu Nürnberg.

Accession number
PML 151967
Creator
Solis, Virgil, 1514-1562, illustrator.
Published
Getruckt zu Franckfurt am Main : Durch David Zephelium, Johan Raschen, und Sigmund Feyerabent, anno M.D.LX [1560].
Credit line
Bequest of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
Title printed in black and red, within woodcut border, with printer's mark (Heitz 28); includes monogram of artist.
Title within woodcut border; includes monogram of artist.
Woodcuts printed one to a page, with Latin captions above and German legends below each cut, some in verse.
147 woodcuts.
Imprint from colophon; date from title page.
Description
[76] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19 cm (4to)
Provenance
William Beckford (1760-1844), purchased in 1826 for 14 shillings and 18 shillings for rebinding, inherited by his daughter: Susan Euphemia Beckford Hamilton (1786-1859) and son-in-law Alexander Douglas Hamilton (1767-1852), 10th Duke of Hamilton, Hamilton Palace Library and Beckford Library sale: Sotheby's, part 3, 2 July 1883, lot 2092 for £7.7.0 to Bernard Quaritch; Henry J.B. Clements, armorial bookplate (front pastedown); unidentified (Quartich or Clements sale?) bookseller description, no. 332, citing Beckford sale (rear endleaf 1 recto); Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
19th-century diced brown calf by C. Smith.
Classification
Department