DURER - Albrecht Durers Christlich-Mythologische Handzeichnungen - the First Lithographed Book Ever Printed - Alois Senefelder
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ALOIS SENEFELDER / ALBRECHT DURER - Albrecht Durers Christlich-Mythologische Handzeichnungen - the First Lithographed Book Ever Printed . Munchen: Alois Senefelder , 1808. 1st Edition. 347 x 255 Mm . Hard Cover. Very Good 43 plates, one selfportrait of Durer; drawing after a painting in the Schleissheimer Gallerie. . 2 Pages of text; Forrede by Senefelder, hand written on the stone..2 index pages with titles of the drawings not lithographed. - Albrecht Durers Christlich-Mythologische Handzeichnungen - First Edition of the First Fully Lithographed Book - Lithographs by Johan Nepomuk Strixner after Durer, printed in sepia, red, darker red, black and green. Foxing on almost every page, on most pages hardly visible and on some pages worse The cover is half velum with marbled boards and marbled endpapers. - "First fully lithographed book. To show of his recent invention,and in particular, to demonstrate its significance for reproducing works of art, Senefelder chose D¸rer's border designs for the prayerbook of Emperor Maximilian I, printed in the colors of the original. (-)" [006391]
