Librería: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, Estados Unidos de America Calificación del vendedor: 5 de 5 estrellas
Vendedor de AbeBooks desde 9 de agosto de 1997
22.5 x 14 cm. Octavo. French language text. Bound in green boards. Gilt lettering to cover and spine, blind stamped design. Extensively illustrated with border illustrations and initials. Chipping to head of spine. Scattered foxing. Front gutter starting. N° de ref. del artículo 64946
Título: L'Alphabet de la Mort de Hans Holbein; ...
Editorial: Imprimé Pour Edwin Tross, Paris
Año de publicación: 1856
Encuadernación: Hardcover
Condición: Good
Edición: First edition.
Librería: Nick Bikoff, IOBA, Fairfield, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Bright, clean red cloth binding with gilt decoration & lettering. Text tight & intact: binding solid. Unpaginated. Written in Latin & French. Various scenes illustrating the universality of death, no matter one's station in life, are engraved in the historiated woodcut borders & letters. Hans Holbein (1497-1543) created his Alphabet of Death at a time when the Latin alphabet did not distinguish between I and J or U and V. The separation into vowels and consonants came after the Renaissance. De Montaiglon's preface notes that Holbein's alphabet has only twenty-four letters. Early owner's bookplate. Toning on endpapers only. Poetry, Art; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. Nº de ref. del artículo: 17837
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Librería: Bouquinerie Aurore (SLAM-ILAB), BELMESNIL, Francia
1 vignette en page de titre reprise en dernière page, encadrements du texte très richement illustrés et 29 lettrines dont 24 pour l'alphabet en lui-même (sans J ni U). Les 5 autres lettrines sont des reprises de celles de l'alphabet. Nº de ref. del artículo: 10495
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles