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réf. 190113Berlin: Julius Bard not dated. Softcover. VG- light soiling and shelfwear to covers pages are clean and clear with light age toning along edges. Missing plates XIV-5 and XV-3. Oversized tan portfolio wraps with black lettering; 9 bw and color mounted plates numbered XIV1- XIV-10 missing XIV-5 and 9 bw and color mounted plates numbered XV1-XV-10 missing XV-3. Text is in German. The hand drawings of Hans Holbein. Originally issued in 40 volumes this is the 14th and 15th. Series Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft E. V 21"x16"x1" Julius Bard paperback books
1777réf. 008900Roi Neuchâtel Switzerland: chez Samuel Fauche Libraire du Roi Neuchâtel 1777. First Edition Thus. Half Leather. Very Good /No Dj. engraved plates. Lacking title page but clearly the edition of 1777 of Chez Samuel Fauche Libraire du Roi Neuchâtel with the double frontispiece featuring the portraits of Erasmus Thomas Moore and Holbein. 8vo. rebound in navy half leather over light blue cloth c. early 20th century no title page double engraved frontispieces plus 6 engraved foldout plates 73 half page plates in text and 3 engraved vignettes. Frontis 2 advertissement nouvelle edition 2 translators preface 6 author's preface 6 234 tables 14 and gilt titles and decorations on rasied spine. Small scuff to light blue cloth at front cover a few small stains rear cover. Corners gently bumped and very modestly worn. Binding tight and firm. Text and and plates slightly toned but remarkably unfoxed better than very good condition. chez Samuel Fauche Libraire du Roi Neuchâtel unknown books
1947réf. 49632New York: The Sylvan Press 1947. Very Good. New York: The Sylvan Press 1947. Limited Edition of 1499 numbered copies this being #328. Small quarto; black cloth stamped in green; pale red endpapers; 150pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. No dust jacket presumably as issued. Rubbing and dust soiling to boards; binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy. The Sylvan Press unknown books
1876réf. 24975Paris: Librarie Des Bibliophiles 1876. Troisieme edition. Three quarter red morocco over red marbled boards raised bands gilt titles marbled end papers. Very good plus or better copy tight clean just a bit of wear at the extremities. A handsome copy of this somewhat uncommon title. xi 247 pp. Illus. with 83 b/w gravures. Sm. 4to. 20 cm. Number 266 of 500 copies on Holland paper original wrappers sewn in. Book plate of Charles Fairfax Murray the English Pre-Raphaelite Painter 1849-1919 on front pastedown. Librarie Des Bibliophiles hardcover books
1832réf. 233834München 1832. 53 lithographs on tissue tipped in. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full brown morocco a.e.g. Very good. Bookplate of Van Nest. 53 lithographs on tissue tipped in. 1 vols. 8vo. unknown books
1830réf. 14624London: William Pickering 1830 Contemporary straight-grained brown morocco over marbled boards. . Octavo. Woodcut printer's device on title and colophon. Illustrations engraved by John and Mary Byfield. Extremites a bit rubbed extremities of spine darkened. A very good copy. William Pickering, hardcover books
1877réf. 190547London: Arundel Society for Promoting the Knowledge of Art 1877. Hardcover. Fair heavy shelfwear to boards internal hinges broken with pages loose all plates are present foxing spots throughout volume 2 has possible water damage to thegreen cloth of the bottom front cover volume 1 has some damp staining to top edge of beginning pages. Two oversized volumes bound in 3/4 brown leather and green cloth boards 5 raised bands on spines with gilt lettering top edge gilt marble illustrated end papers. Volume 1 contains an 8 pp preface followed by a list of the plates and plates numbered 1-40. Volume 2 contains a list of the plates followed by plates 41-80. Each plate has an accompanying text page. "Under the Sanction of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education." title page. 18x13x3" Arundel Society for Promoting the Knowledge of Art hardcover books
1803réf. 6498London: John Scott and Thomas Ostell 1803. Half-Leather. Collectible; Very Good. The 1803 1st "John Scott" edition with the 36 remarkable Holbein copper-plates and further etched by David Deuchar. A dual text edition with the descriptions of each plate in both French and English. Bound in half period-calf over marbled boards. A degree of scuffing and wear at the leather notable chipping and label loss at the spine. Light foxing at specific points in the text but the plates are clean and bright and have held up very nicely. In spite of the forgivable flaws still sturdy and VG-. 12mo painted by Holbein in the Town House of Basil. John Scott and Thomas Ostell unknown books
1843réf. 625.1843Basel Chez Maehli-Lamy 1843. 8vo. three-quarter green cloth over marbled boards with the title stamped in gilt on the spine and bookplate of Edward Cheney on front pastedown. This bilingual edition begins with a short history of the subject followed by a series of woodcuts portraying the usual array of humankind confronting Death personified. A number of the plates bear the initials GS along with a rendering of a knife to signify the name of the wood cutter George Scharffenberg who first cut these images into wood in 1576. As Aldred Warthin The Physician and the Dance of Death points out "Most of these 18th century editions by de Mechel have 41 woodcuts as does ours 27 from Holbein 7 from the Basel Totentanz and 7 probably from the Totentanz in Berne.Numerous cheap reproductions of these were issued in Basel during the first half of the nineteenth century." Our edition has cuts that measure a generous 4 3/8 x 3 inches and are close copies of the originals. In over thirty years of searching it is the very first copy of this edition we have seen. See: Warthin. p. 83-84 illustrations and 89. Not in Minns. A 19TH C. DANCE OF DEATH WITH WOODCUTS BY SCHARFFENBERG Basel Chez Maehli-Lamy hardcover books
1825réf. 7751825London William Charlton Wright 1825. 8vo. Publisher's printed boards rubbed and hand soiled with a calf spine; internally quite nice.First edition of what purports to be the work of John Bewick but probably is not. As Aldred Warthin The Physician of the Dance of Death. pp. 81-82 writes: "The cuts with several exceptions are imitations of the original Holbein but are absurdly modernized; both the costumes and the properties are represented in the contemporary style.they have somewhat the quality of caricature in them.If these cuts are Bewick's which Douce seems to doubt they are far inferior to his other work and executed in a different style. They represent a far departure from the old medieval conceptions and treatment and betray the tendency of the early nineteenth century to use the Dance of Death motive for purposes of caricature." Comparison with either of Bewick's 1789 editions the London edition and the notably rare Charnley/Newcastle imprint bears this out. AN EDITION SELDOM MET WITH!See: Douce Francis. Holbein's Dance of Death. Lon. 1858. Not in the Susan Minns collection sold by AAA Galleries in 1922 which contained the other Bewick printings. A VERY SCARCE EDITION London William Charlton Wright hardcover books
1816réf. 850.1816London J. Coxhead 1816. Publisher's printed gray boards copy set within decorative borders; spine renewed with matching paper.Based upon Holbein's original 15th century designs Wenceslaus Hollar the Bohemian etcher born in Prague in 1607 created copper plates for his own Dance of Death. In 1647 an edition of 30 copperplates was brought out in London; another edition from these plates was published in 1651. The plates then disappeared from sight until the late 18th-early 19th centuries when several editions from the "newly discovered" plates began to appear. In this copy which appears "as issued" by the publisher the plate section is gathered together at the front just after the title-page and before the letterpress i.e. "The Life of Holbein" followed by an essay on the history of the dance of death called "The Dance of Death" is followed by "Descriptions of the Cuts in Hollar's Dance of Death" in English and French. At the end is a short essay entitled "The Dance of Macaber". Typically these copies in boards were handed over to bookbinders who before sewing the gatherings interleaved the descriptive text with the plates. It is HIGHLY UNCOMMON to find the work in the original boards in such an unsophisticated state. According to a notice on the boards the work was issued by Coxhead coloured for 25s and plain for 16s. See: Warthin A. S. The Physician of the Dance of Death. pp. 72-75. Minns Catalogue No. 253. IN THE PUBLISHER'S PRINTED BOARDS London J. Coxhead hardcover books
1804réf. 13945London: np 1804. Later Edition. Full Calf. Very Good. Later Edition. Full Calf. "Dance of Death": late-medieval allegory on the universality of death. With Hans Holbein the Younger the Danse macabre takes on a completely new artistic form. This depicts the brutal irruption of Death in work and the joy of living. This representation takes precedence over the idea that death spares no social class. In 1538 with the publication of Les simulacres de la Mort Hans Holbein the Younger redefines the theme of the danse macabre. Death always aggressive and jubilant no longer dances in a long farandole but intervenes directly in scenes of daily life. This is a series of 32 engraving with a folding plate which were originally executed around 1804. This edition has continuous pagination and is in English beginning with a divisional title: 'Descriptions of the cuts in Hollar's Dance of death.' The final part 'The Dance of Macaber.' Collation: A2-B-F8 Pagination: 281p1 32 plates 2 frontis 1 folding 29 engraved leaves. This copy also includes handwritten inscriptions on the plates of Biblical verses from Genesis on several leaves. Completely detached front board shaken rear rubbing/bumping to extremities otherwise a good copy. Full mottled tree calf with gilt spine/edging decorations. 4to. 81pp. Illus. b/w 32 unnumbered leaves of engravings with folding plate frontispieces. Annotations. Lacking a plate np unknown books
1828réf. 44152London: William Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Printing-Office 1828. Second edition. With 84 hand-colored stipple engravings after drawings by Hans Holbein in the Royal collections with tissue guards. Printed on pink or white paper. Unpaginated. 1 vols. Folio 14 x 10 inches. Contemporary 3/4 red morocco panelled spine elaborately gilt with brown morocco lettering-piece a.e.g. original spine neatly laid down. Second edition. With 84 hand-colored stipple engravings after drawings by Hans Holbein in the Royal collections with tissue guards. Printed on pink or white paper. Unpaginated. 1 vols. Folio 14 x 10 inches. A handsome collection of portraits many printed on toned paper with letterpress commentaries on the subjects' lives. In addition to the 80 portraits called for in the printed "List of Plates" there should also be 4 plates which that list omits: the portrait of Holbein himself that of his wife and the portraits of Henry and Charles sons of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk. William Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare Printing-Office unknown books
1803réf. 21501803London W. Smith for John Scott & Thomas Ostell 1803. Squarish small 4to. original gray publisher's boards with a printed paper label: Holbein's Dance of Death with Fifty Plates. Twelve Shillings. Rebacked a few plates guarded slight widespread spotting. RARE IN THIS STATE. As to the plates themselves there are fifty as the cover label states the title-page calls for 46 and they differ in number slightly from another edition of the same year printed by S. Gosnell for Scott and Ostell. What's more they are not set within decorative borders and the letterpress and title-page differs significantly from the other edition in both typeface and format; here the text is gathered in an integral section that precedes the plates in the other edition the plates are integrated into the text we know of another copy in the publishers gray boards in which the plates are untrimmed and gathered in a section after the letterpress. Thirty of the plates are copies from Hollar's designs the rest are from the spurious editions of Holbein's cuts with variations. The last plate not mentioned by Douce as being in this work and often lacking is a design by De Mechel called "Petite Danse de Morts" which was originally engraved on the sheath of a poignard after drawings by Holbein. The work was first published in Edinburgh in 1788. According to Aldred Warthin "The paper used in the Edinburgh edition is extremely poor which may account for the poor impressions of the plates.and The prints in these London editions are much better than those of the Edinburgh and a better quality of paper is used." The quality of the plates in the two 1803 editions is similar as to wear the impressions of the Gosnell-printed edition are however considerable darker than are those printed by Smith. See" Warthin Aldred S. The Physician of the Dance of Death. pp. 79-80. Douce Francis. The Dance of Death. pp. 135-36. Minns Collection. AAA Catalogue 1922. No. 268 "Large uncut copy of this rare edition of Deuchar's plates. Printed on heavier paper than the first edition and with very fine impressions of the plates.". IN THE PUBLISHER'S BOARDS London W. Smith for John Scott & Thomas Ostell hardcover books
1803réf. 2250.1803London S. Gosnell 1803. Sm. 4to. contemporary paneled calf with blind decorated sides and spine which has been rebacked much earlier; red morocco label all edges stained red. Occasional foxing mainly to the beginning and end; a handsome well-printed copy. The 46 Dance of Death plates are within separately engraved borders in four different designs three of which are copied with slight variations from the Diepenbeke borders to W. Hollar's plates. As to the plates themselves 30 are copies from Hollar's designs the rest are from the spurious editions of Holbein's cuts with variations. The last plate not mentioned by Douce as being in this work and often lacking is a design by De Mechel called "Petite Danse de Morts" which was originally engraved on the sheath of a poignard after drawings by Holbein. The work was first published in Edinburgh in 1788. According to Aldred Warthin "The paper used in the Edinburgh edition is extremely poor which may account for the poor impressions of the plates. Two other editions of Deuchar were printed by S. Gosnell London in 1803 one WITH and one WITHOUT the Diepenbeke borders. The prints in these London editions are much better than those of the Edinburgh and a better quality of paper is used." It would appear that Warthin did not know that there were two editions of 1803 printed for Scott by two different printers S. Gosnell and W. Smith & Co. See: Warthin Aldred S. The Physician of the Dance of Death. pp. 79-80. Douce Francis. The Dance of Death. pp. 135-36. Minns Collection. AAA Catalogue 1922. No. 268 "Large uncut copy of this rare edition of Deuchar's plates. Printed on heavier paper than the first edition and with very fine impressions of the plates.". PLATES WITH THE DECORATIVE BORDERS London S. Gosnell unknown books
1803réf. 22501803London W. Smith for John Scott 1803. Small 4to. contemporary red straight grain morocco expertly rebacked with a half-inch wide decorated border surrounding a blind-tooled border; spine with four raised bands and elaborate decorative gilt tooling. A.e.g. The work contains a total of fifty plates of which 46 are devoted to the Dance of Death. The plates are printed without the decorative borders found in copies printed by S. Gosnell for John Scott the same year. In this copy they are interleaved with the letterpress text. As to the Dance of Death plates themselves 30 are copies from Hollars designs the rest are from the spurious editions of Holbeins cuts with variations. The work was first published in Edinburgh in 1788. According to Aldred Warthin "The paper used in the Edinburgh edition is extremely poor which may account for the poor impressions of the plates. Two other editions of Deuchar were printed by S. Gosnell London in 1803 one WITH and one WITHOUT the Diepenbeke borders. The prints in these London editions are much better than those of the Edinburgh and a better quality of paper is used." It would appear that Warthin was unaware that there were two printings in 1803 for Scott by two different printers. In our experience the Smith printing is the rarer of the two. See" Warthin Aldred S. The Physician of the Dance of Death. pp. 79-80. Douce Francis. The Dance of Death. pp. 135-36. Minns Collection. AAA Catalogue 1922. No. 268 "Large uncut copy of this rare edition of Deuchar's plates. Printed on heavier paper than the first edition and with very fine impressions of the plates.". IN A FINE RED MOROCCO BINDING London W. Smith for John Scott hardcover books
1792réf. 65216London: W. Bulmer & Co 1792. HOLBEIN Hans; CHAMBERLAINE John. artist. CHAMBERLAINE John. Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein in the Collection of His Majesty for the Portraits of Illustrious Persons of the Court of Henry VIII. With biographical tracts. Published by John Chamberlaine Keeper of the King's Drawings and Medals and F.S.A. London: W. Bulmer & Co. 1792. First edition of Chamberlaine's magnificent volume of 86 color stipple-engraved plates rarely found complete. Large folio 21 1/4 x 16 1/2 inches; 540 x 415 mm. Complete with the 80 listed plates all of which are mounted frontispiece portraits of Holbein and Holbein's wife and a third frontis of a group portrait two hand-colored miniatures and an additional plate of Henry Howard Earl of Surry engraved by Scriven. An impressive collection of full-page engravings after Holbein's legendary portraits of Jane Seymour Anne Boleyn Sir Thomas More a young Edward VI Anne of Cleves and other court figures with frontispiece portraits of Holbein and his wife. Of the listed plates all but four portraits are engraved by the great Bartolozzi. In total eighty-two plates are in color with four on lavender paper sixty-three on pink thirteen on white/buff inclusive of one sheet with double portrait of Henry and Charles Brandon finished by hand. With one leaf of publisher's advertisements. 19th-century full red morocco rebacked with original spine laid down. Boards elaborately stamped with floral devices and with thirteen gilt rules. Spines elaborately stamped in blind and gilt lettered in gilt. With one-inch gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Green coated endpapers. Plates exceptionally bright and clean with only very minor instances of foxing. Most foxing is to leaves and not engravings. Title-page with 11/2-inch x 1/2 piece torn from fore-edge and a 2-inch closed tear at fore-edge neither affecting text. Many of the plates are a somewhat wrinkled. The plate of Lord Clinton with a small tear to the pink paper not affecting engraving. Occasional marginal closed tears professionally repaired. Binding a bit rubbed and bumped. Overall a very good copy of a magnificent work. German artist Hans Holbein the Younger ranks "as one of the best portrait-painters in the world. He combined artistic beauty and precision of technical execution with extraordinary truth to nature and power of interpretation of character." Holbein born in 1497 first "arrived in England in the 18th year of the reign of Henry VIII. Sir Thomas More was then Chancellor of the Exchequer and Warham. was Archbishop of Canterbury. Through them Holbein obtained easy access to the leading men of the court" painting portraits of Moore Warham and many others before returning home. He journeyed back to England in 1532 where by 1536 he was in service as "'the king's painter' and in that year he painted the new queen Jane Seymour." In 1539 as a New Year's gift to the king "he gave 'a table of the pictour of the prince's grace' possibly the portrait of the infant Edward VI at Hanover. His portrait of Anne of Cleves perhaps the one now in the Louvre was sufficiently attractive to decide the king in her favour" DNB. The majestic portraiture of Holbein who died in London in 1543 "remains unsurpassed for sureness and economy of statement penetration into character and a combined richness and purity of style" Waterhouse. At the end of the 18th century John Chamberlaine in the court of George III sought to bring together a work to pay tribute to Holbein's magnificent artistry. There had been previous unsuccessful attempts to publish the portraits in engraved reproductions such as a 1792 volume containing 33 plates of poor quality titled The Court of Henry the Eighth. Yet Chamberlain succeeded where others failed for as the king's Keeper of the Drawings he assembled in this Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein 84 splendid color stipple-engraved full-page portraits of Edward VI Anne Boleyn Thomas More Jane Seymour the Archbishop of Canterbury Anne of Cleves and other major figures of the age. "One of the most magnificent books that we have ever seen and whether we consider the genius of the painter or the talents of the engravers reflects high honor on the age and nation which produced it" London Monthly Review. Sir Walter Scott praised it as "a collection which at once satisfies the imagination and the understanding showing us. how the most distinguished of our ancestors looked moved and dressed and. how they thought acted lived and died" Allibone 1120. Color-inked on the plates these intricate stipple-engraved portraits comprise "inestimable examples of English color printing at its best" Joan Friedman. "This magnificent work is surely the finest early example of English color printing. The reduced reissue of 1812 reprinted in 1828 gives no idea of the book's quality" Ray English 19. "In every way a splendid book" Abbey Life 205. Initially issued serially in 14 parts from 1792-1800. This volume's 86 beautiful portraits were achieved with techniques that admirably succeed in honoring Holbein's portraiture. The plates were etched or engraved in gray or sepia ink with additional colored inks applied a la poupee two hand-colored. Text by Edmund Lodge. Abbey Life 206. Lowndes 1381. Abbey Life 205 206. HBS 65216. $12500. W. Bulmer & Co unknown books
