Bernard Quaritch Ltd (London)

(23 cm), [32] pp., illustrations. [53] items. Price list loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed self-wrappers. - Includes essays by William Patrick Watson (The Mattioli woodblocks: a remarkable survival), Sandra Raphael (Mattioli’s Herbal), Iain Bain (A technical note on the blocks), and catalogue. The illustrations are of prints newly taken from the fifty-three wood blocks by Ian Mortimer. Cf. John Bidwell, Mattioli’s herbal: a short account of its illustrations, with a print from an original woodblock, catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition “Picturing natural history: flora and fauna in drawings, manuscripts, and printed books” held at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 12 February-4 May 2003, New York 2003). Giovanni and Martino Mardersteig… Catalogue of the exhibition celebrating sixty years since the founding of the press Stamperia Valdonega, 1948-2008 (New York 2008), no. 13. ¶ As new