Albert Durers Designs of the Prayer Book.

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Folio (38 x 27 cm.): [4], 8 pages; [1], 43 leaves of lithographed plates, printed mostly in single colors (black, red, green, mauve, and grey) and two printed in black and red, plus frontispiece portrait of Dürer (p. [2]). Bound in 19th century half-calf over marbled boards, expertly rebacked in black cloth with old calf spine overlaid; minor spotting and foxing on some leaves. From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookseller Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013), with pencil signature on title page of Herbert W. Bryans dated 1895, almost certainly Herbert William Bryans (1855-1925), British artist and stain glass designer. THE FIRST MAJOR BOOK PRINTED IN BRITAIN BY MEANS OF LITHOGRAPHY. As documented by Abbey and Twyman, a few earlier attempts to print books using lithography were made in the Britain, but Ackermann s book is "the first serious attempt to popularize the new method" (Abbey). Dürer s marginal drawings for the manuscript prayer book of the Emperor Maximilian, now in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, were considered a national treasure in Germany, and lithography was used to produce several facsimile editions of it. Alois Senefelder, the inventor of lithography, printed an edition in Munich in 1808 entitled Albrecht Dürers Christlich-Mythologische Handzeichnungen, which included 43 border designs printed in several single colors matching those that Dürer had originally used. Ackermann s 1817 edition, the first important production from his lithographic press, used plates that were copied from Senefelder s 1808 edition by an unknown artist. The book s title page was printed in red and black, as was a single text page of the original manuscript. According to Michael Twyman, "These two pages may well be the earliest examples of colour lithography from separate stones to have been produced in Britain" (Twyman (2013), p. 36). REFERENCES: J. R. Abbey, Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography, 1770-1860 (1953), 202; Michael Twyman, A History of Chromolithography: Printed Colour for All (2013), pp. 35-36; Michael Twyman, Early Lithographed Books (1990), pp. 49, 204-205, 294 (no. 1.92). N° de ref. del artículo 72JFP026

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