Accession number
PML 76436
Creator
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.
Published
London : Published at R. Ackermann's Lithographic Press, September 1st. 1817.
Credit line
Purchased on the Harper Fund.
Notes
Pages [1]-8 are letterpress; the plates, which include a frontispiece portrait and 43 designs, are lithographed.
The designs are copied from J.N. Strixner's lithographic copies of the originals in the prayer book, ordered and compiled by Emperor Maximilian I, in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich.
Illustrated lithographic t.p. printed in red and black.
The monochromatic plates are printed in black or in varying shades of brown, green, blue, violet, and red. The color of some plates varies among copies.
Introduction signed: J.B. Bernhart.
"The first production of [Ackermann's] Lithographic Press"--P. [1].
The designs are copied from J.N. Strixner's lithographic copies of the originals in the prayer book, ordered and compiled by Emperor Maximilian I, in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich.
With Ackermann's advertisement slip.
The designs are copied from J.N. Strixner's lithographic copies of the originals in the prayer book, ordered and compiled by Emperor Maximilian I, in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich.
Illustrated lithographic t.p. printed in red and black.
The monochromatic plates are printed in black or in varying shades of brown, green, blue, violet, and red. The color of some plates varies among copies.
Introduction signed: J.B. Bernhart.
"The first production of [Ackermann's] Lithographic Press"--P. [1].
The designs are copied from J.N. Strixner's lithographic copies of the originals in the prayer book, ordered and compiled by Emperor Maximilian I, in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich.
With Ackermann's advertisement slip.
Description
8 p., [3], 43 leaves of plates : facsims., port. ; 37 cm (fol.)
Binding
Half calf, marbled boards.
Classification
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