Dodgson, Campbell: Catalogue of early German and Flemish woodcuts: preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (Band 1): [German and Flemish woodcuts of the XV century] (London, 1903)

Division A.—School of Nuremhevg.—Durer.

339

The whole is printed on eight sheets, which bear signatures (A to G
and If>) the 1. lower corner.

[Size of sheet, 500 X 2'3fi5; limits of design, 455 X 2'302; border only on 1. side
and below.]

Fine impression, well preserved, mounted on linen and folded. Watermark, Ha. 32.
Purchased from Messrs. Evans, 1856.

145a. THE GEEAT TEIUMPHAL CAE. B. 139. H. 1912. E. 247.

Second edition.

The text, printed with movable type, is in Latin, and ends ; “ Excogi-
tatus & depictus est Currus iste Nurembergae, Impressus vero per
Albertum Diirer, Anno . m.d.xxiii.” The first sheet has no signature ; the
other seven have the signatures B to G and h.

[Size of sheet, 480 X 2'280.] Good impression, the first sheet better printed tlian
the rest; not so well preserved as the first edition, and with less margin. Eed lines
have been ruled along the edges and round the printed inscriptions; mounted on
linen and folded. Watermark, Ha. 32.

Provenance not recorded.

145b. THE GEEAT TEIUMPHAL CAE. B. 139. H. 1912. E. 247.

Eourth edition.

See Ha. p. 85. The Latin text is an almost exact reprint of that in
the second edition, but the following variations occur in the first column :
1. 3, 2nd ecl. “iis,” 4tli ed. “ ijs ”; 1. 6, 2nd ed. “ recte,” 4th ed. “recte” ;
1. 9, 2nd ed. “ moderate,” 4th ed. “moderate.” The margin has been
almost entirely cut away, but the upper half of the signatures from B to
G can be seen.

[Size of sheet, 457 x 2'312.] Fair impression, not much inferior to the earlier
editions, but the paper is stained and cut down; mounted on linen and folded.
Watermark, on sheets C and E, a shield with stars; on sheet D, Ha. 32 ; on the rest,
none visible.

In the inventory of 1837.

145e. THE GEEAT TEIUMPHAL GAE. B. 139. PI. 1912. E, 247.

Fifth edition.

See Ha. p. 85. The Latin text is reprinted from the 2nd and 4th
editions ; in the words alreacly mentioned, in the first column, it has
“ iis,” like the 2nd edition, but “ recte ” ancl “ moderate ” like the 4th.
At the end, after the date m.d. xxiii, is added, “Anno autem d. m.d.
lxxxviiii. Iacobus Chinig Germanus, tabulas hasce ad hseredibus Alberti
Hurerii eere | proprio emptas iterum Yenetiis diuulgandas curauit. |
Kinig Germanus.” The first two sheets have no signatures, the others
have Roman capitals from C to H.

[Size of sheet, 480 X 2'350.] Fair impression, well preserved, with margin. White
paper. Watermark, a shield of irregular shape, with initials S C, surmounted by a
trefoil.

Purchased from Mr. Evans, 1864.

145d. THE GEEAT TEIUMPHAL CAE. B. 139. H. 1912. E. 247.

Trial-proof.

This is a trial-proof, hand-printed by friction, of so much of the first

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