Sparkasse Bremen
Schab (Frederick G.), 1924-2020
Buchkunst der deutschen Renaissance : Book design of the German Renaissance : Von Dürer bis Dietterlin. Perspektive, Architektur, Ornament, Typographie, Bucheinband (catalogue of an exhibition held in the Bremen Sparkasse, 10 October-10 November 2000)
[New York], Frederick G. Schab, 2000
(27 cm), 76 pp., illustrations (some in colour). 24 catalogue entries. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - On exhibition were the Hauslab-Liechtenstein copy of Jean Pèlerin dit Viator, Von der Kunst Perspectiva (Nuremberg 1509); the perspective treatises of Hieronymus Rodler (1531), Erhard Schön (1543), Augustin Hirschvogel (1543), Lorenz Stoer, Geometria et perspectiva (Augsburg 1567), Wenzel Jamnitzer (1568); and Peter Flötner’s Kunstbuch (Zurich 1559). The books were lent by the Bibliothek Otto Schäfer and several other sources. German text, with English translation in parallel columns. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy.