AFTER JAN VAN DER STRAET, CALLED STRADANUS | THE INVENTION OF BOOK PRINTING (IMPRESSIO LIBRORUM) (NEW HOLLSTEIN 326)

AFTER JAN VAN DER STRAET, CALLED STRADANUS

1523 - 1605

THE INVENTION OF BOOK PRINTING (IMPRESSIO LIBRORUM) (NEW HOLLSTEIN 326) 

Engraving by Philips Galle with (presumably later) hand-colouring, circa 1591, from New Inventions of Modern Times (Nova Reperta), New Hollstein's second state (of three), with the address of Ioan Galle, on paper with a Cross and Interlaced 'C' watermark, unframed

plate: 200 by 265mm 7⅞ by 10⅜in

sheet: 240 by 310mm 9½ by 12⅛in