Specvlvm vitæ aulicæ. De Admirabili Fallacia Et Astvtia Vvlpecvlæ Reinikes Libri Qvatvor, Nvnc primùm ex idiomate Germanico latinitate donati…Auctore Hartmanno Schoppero.
Frankfurt a.M., [N. Bassée for] S. Feyerabend 1574 [colophon 1575].
12mo (139 x 81 mm.). [xx], 506 [r. 486], [20], [2 blank]p. FIFTY-TWO TEXT WOODCUTS BY JOST AMMAN (8 repeated), Feyerabend devices on the title and penultimate verso.
CONTEMPORARY VELLUM WALLET BINDING (soiled, splits at the crown and base of spine and fore-edge), brass clasp and catch, 19th-century spine title label (later ink dates).
THIS EDITION OF THE BELOVED VERSE FABLE CYCLE CONTAINS THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THESE CHARMING WOODCUTS by Jost Amman (1539-91). Here nearly all in excellent impressions, the blocks were reused and copied into the 18th century. This is the second printing of the Latin translation by Hartmann Schopper, who prefaced each story with a summary of the action and followed it with extensive prose commentary. In nice condition (light stain in the blank corner of four quires, one natural paper flaw with no loss, one smudge), bookplate of Swiss collector of horse books Henry A. Sarasin (1917-95).
¶Menke, Bibliotheca reinardiana I: II.B.b.3; Hollstein, German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts II: 43; Becker, Jobst Amman 5a; Universal Catalogue of Books on Art I: 25; VD 16 R 1013; see Brüggemann’s & Brunken’s Handbuch zur Kinder- und Jugendliteratur von 1570 bis 1750 752 (1595 ed.).
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