Oct 11, 2012 - Sale 2289

Sale 2289 - Lot 265

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
(OFFICINA BODONI.) Dürer, Albrecht. A Comedy of Terence called Andria. Illustrated with 25 woodcut illustrations by Fritz Kredel after Albrecht Dürer. Folio, original 1/4 vellum over cloth boards gilt, top edges gilt, acetate jacket, slipcase; publisher's prospectus, specimen page, and order slip laid in. Norman J. Sondheim bookplate. Verona, 1971

Additional Details

number 114 of 160 copies, this copy signed by kredel. A clean, crisp copy. The original designs were made by Dürer for an edition of Terence that was never realized; the unpublished illustrations remained in the Kunstmuseum at Basel.