Max rooses introduction (3 Ergebnisse)

38 x 28,5 cm - 14 pgs+ 1 bl + XI planches - 14 pgs+ 1 bl + 55 planches - couverture (soft cover) d'éditeur - témoins non coupés - traces d'usage à la couverture autrement très bien - herdruk van de blokken - réimpression des bois.

Antwerpen, Editions du Musée Plantin-Moretus à Anvers, Imprimé par J.E. Buschmann à Anvers. 1901, Format 17,5 x 11,5 cm, 10 + 68 pp, printed in 100 copies all on Van Gelder, this is copy 39/100. Contemporary full calf, raised gilt spine, . All edges gilt. marbled end-papers. (most probably a publisher's binding, reserved for the ''de luxe'' copies ) Re-edition of this emblemata book printed with the original woodblocks, each page with an emblematical engraving in an elaborate typographical border. With an introduction by the first museum curator Max Rooses. Very fine bibliophile publication with the original woodcuts from the museum's holdings. Very attractive copy with tipped in a wood-engraved ex-libris designed by E. Pellens for August van Schevensteen.(an owl).…

8. Anvers (Antwerpen), Editions du Musée Plantin-Moretus, s.d. (1900), small in-4°, 21 x 17 cm, (7) + (12) pp + 12 copper engravings by Jean Wierick, 1573, who had also designed them, full leather binding with gilt fillets on covers, raised back, a.e.g. (publisher's binding). Leather with some stains, inside with some foxing, hardly on the engravings which are protected by a loosely inserted serpente, more foxing on the first 5 text leaves. (Still acceptable). First edition of a suite of 12 engravings designed to illustrate a Plantin edition of a Breviary, but they were never used. An important example of Dutch-Flemish book illustration in the 16th century.…