Cock, Pictorum aliquot celebrium Germaniae inferioris effigies, Antwerp, 1572, modern boards

COCK, HIERONYMUS

Pictorum aliquot celebrium Germaniae inferioris effigies. Eorum nempe qui vita functi hac praestantiss[ima] arte immortalitatis nomen sibi compararunt... Antwerp: widow of Hieronymus Cock, 1572

small folio (309 x 210mm.), title within decorative typographic border, verses by Dominicus Lampronius (in praise of Cock on A2, and verse caption at foot of each portrait), letterpress text on B1 repeated upside down on verso, 23 engraved portraits (some initialled IHW, i.e. Jan Wiericx), with final blank leaf, modern boards, occasional light staining, small tear at foot of B1 just touching text, spine defective

Second edition of a fine collection of engraved portraits of artists from the Low Countries, including Hubert and Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hieronymus Bosch, Quinten Massys, Lucas van Leyden, Pieter Coecke van Aalst, Pieter Bruegel, and finally Hieronymus Cock himself.

LITERATURE:

Hollstein IV, p.184, nos 1-23; USTC 401537