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Holbein, Hans (1497-1543) Historiarum Veteris Testamenti Icones ad Vivum Expressae.
Lyons: apud Ioannem & Franciscum Frellonios, fratres, 1543.
Third edition, quarto, (lacking N4 final blank), title page with Frellon moth and crab woodcut printer's device, illustrated throughout with ninety-four woodcuts by Holbein; bound in later limp parchment, housed in folding chemise, ex libris Philip Hofer, with his bookplate inside the front cover of the chemise, some spots, fingersoiling, one leaf repaired, 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.
Brunet III 252; Graesse III 317; not in Fairfax Murray; Mortimer: Harvard French 279 (Frellon's Spanish edition of the same year); see also Philip Hofer's "Holbein's Old Testament Woodcuts," in The New Colophon, vol. 1, part 2 (April 1948).
