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(DÜRER, ALBRECHT.) Strixner, Johann Nepomuk. Albrecht Dürers Christlich-Mythologische Handzeichnungen. 46 lithographed plates, comprising title, portrait of Dürer, calligraphic preface, and 43 borders redrawn by Strixner after Dürer, each printed in single color to match the originals; one-leaf letterpress plate list at end. Folio, 398x302 mm, later 19th-century 1/2 vellum, spine partly darkened; contents unobtrusively washed with residual foxing on title, preface leaf, and several plates, repaired clean tear in plate 25. (Munich, 1808)
first edition of a facsimile of Dürer's historiated border designs for the 1513 Book of Hours printed for Emperor Maximilian; first state of plate 19, with the original misnumbering corrected in manuscript. This was the first major work by Strixner (1782-1855), who pioneered the use of lithography for the reproduction of Old Master drawings and paintings. Printing and the Mind of Man (exhibition catalogue) I, 623 ("one of the first important works to be produced wholly by lithography"); Twyman, Early Lithographed Books 1.91 (also pages 204-05); see also his Lithography (1970), pages 16 and 21.
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