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Title: Geschichte der Holzschneidekunst von den ältesten bis auf des neuesten Zeiten, nebst zwei Beilagen, enthaltend den Ursprung der Spielfarten and en Berzeichniß der sämmtlichen xylographischen Werke.
Description: Bamberg: Kunz, 1823. First edition, xii, 457, [3]pp., a very good ex-library copy, illustrs., in the text, 11 engraved plates (some folding), nineteenth-century half vellum. "One of the best German works on xylography, with a history of the origin of playing cards."—Bigmore and Wyman. Bigmore and Wyman I, p. 322.

Keywords: BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS BIBLIOGRAPHY EARLY PRINTING INCUNABULA PLAYING CARDS XYLOGRAPHY WOOD BLOCK PRINTING

Price: GBP 145.13 = appr. US$ 207.24 Seller: Forest Books
- Book number: 33842