Sales catalogue 1: Martin Breslauer

Date:: 20th century

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/27/1

Credit: Sales catalogue 1: Martin Breslauer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$»There are fine examples of plant drawing in a beautiful herbal. (Fuchsius etc.) They are not only faithful and characteristic as drawings of the plants themselves, but are beautiful as decorative designs, being drawn in a fine free style, and with a delicate sense of line, and well thrown upon the page. At the beginning is a wood- cut portrait of the author, Leonard Fuchs — possibly the fuschia may have been named after him — (NB: it is so), The 4 portraits are vigorously drawn in a style suggestive of HANS BURGMAIR<«. Walter Crane Decorative illustration of books p. 119. William Morris esteemed this book highly and continually consulted it for tn Mig. a ‘ RANA SSG \\ Ni ANU . WS ch ee TSS SUT | a —— a —— vnderweyfung . . Kunder Jfrael von Egypto. nach Gzegorij, Des \| jars do mann 3alt || M.D, XT (1511). Fol. goth., 2spaltig gedruckt, 166 Blatt mit 6 blatigrossen, schon altkolorierten Hols- schnitten u.g grossen Initialen (5 koloriert u, 4 schwarz). Cart. VERKAUFYT. Die schénen Holzschnitte sind von HANS BALDUNG GRIEN in Anlehnung an die von BURGKMAIR gezeichnet,. SCHMIDT VII, 74. KRISTELLER, 371.$

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