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WILSON, Adrian - The Nuremberg Chronicle Designs. An account of the new discovery of the earliest known layouts for a printed book: the Exemplars for the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493 with pages from the Latin exemplar reproduced for the first time.

Title: The Nuremberg Chronicle Designs. An account of the new discovery of the earliest known layouts for a printed book: the Exemplars for the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493 with pages from the Latin exemplar reproduced for the first time.
Description: San Francisco-Los Angeles, The Roxburghe Club-The Zamorano Club, 1969. 35 x 22 cm. Original wrappers. 44 pp. Printed in red and black by Adrian Wilson on his private press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco, with the assistance of Clifford Burke, in 350 copies. 1st edition. Cover partly browned. Reproduction of the oldest known layout notes with the pages as they were executed in the Nuremberg Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel from 1493. Majestic private edition, printed by the author (1923-1988), who wrote The Design of Books (1967). From the collection of Huib van Krimpen.

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Price: EUR 30.00 = appr. US$ 32.61 Seller: Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - Paulbooks
- Book number: 277899

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