DAVIES, Hugh W., (compiled by)

Catalogue of Early German Books in the Library of C. Fairfax Murray. [in 2 Volumes].

London. The Holland Press. 1962. 4to. 28cm, xviii,(iv),462p & 817,lxiipp., edition limited to 250 copies, 2 frontis, extensive illustrations including 30 plates,indexes (authors, titles, artists, printers, publishers, former owners), quater japon vellum backed red cloth, gilt spine titles, fine in fine jackets (gar). Item #41380

~ A massive set of early German-printed books (including the presses of Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and several of Austria-Hungary) from c.1455 to 1680, the earliest dated Blockbooks and the Gutenberg specimen to the last, Rembrandt's etching to Jan Six's Medea. Lavishly illustrated with full-page plates of bindings, reproductions of woodcuts and meticulous descriptions (often original). Collector Charles Faitfax Murray (1849-1919) was a prominent English painter and art critic.

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