Maximilian I--Burgkmair, Hans

Large oblong folio (460 x 550mm.), title and text in German and French, 135 woodcut plates by Burgkmair and others, nineteenth-century half morocco, t.e.g., some plate numbers altered in an old hand, slight abrasion to plates 70 and 135, binding very slightly rubbed, new endpapers

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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The original drawings for these woodcuts were made between 1512 and 1516. The blocks were cut in the following year by Burgkmair (a pupil of Durer) and others, including Hans Schauffelein who had worked on Pfintzing's Theuerdanck. They were first printed in a very small edition in 1526 at the instruction of Ferdinand and were not reprinted until this edition in 1796.