Two volumes (29 cm), lxiv, 931 pp. (paged continuously), frontispiece, 56 plates (some folding). Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Catalogue raisonné of the graphic oeuvre of the prolific book illustrators Jan (1649-1712) and Caspar (1672-1708) Luyken, father and son (some 4,500 different prints as illustrations for at least 500 different books). The catalogue is based on a vast collection assembled by Christiaan Pieter van Eeghen (1816-1889) and was compiled by his son, Pieter, assisted by the first director of the Amsterdam Rijksprentenkabinet, Johan Philip van der Kellen. ¶ Several plates slightly affected by foxing. Collector's discreet blind stamp on upper covers; otherwise a fine copy with no other marks of ownership.
(24 cm), xvi, 249 (1) pp., frontispiece, 64 illustrations on 62 leaves. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Cort worked almost entirely as a reproductive engraver, collaborating with Titian, Girolamo Muziano, the brother Zuccaro, and Giulio Clovio, and before his departure for Italy in 1565 (where he died), he had engraved in the workshop of Hieronymus Cock the designs of Frans Floris and Maerten van Heemskerck. He also produced prints after Raphael, Correggio, and Federico Barocci. ¶ Wrappers lightly finger-marked; otherwise a fine copy with minimal traces of use and no marks of ownership.
(27 cm), 238 (2) pp., plus 285 illustration on 70 plates, text illustrations (figs.1-56 on pp.85-100). Publisher’s printed wrapper, pictorial dust jacket. - Catalogue of the prints and drawings of Cornelis Bos (215 prints by, 69 drawings and doubtful and rejected work in all media). It “is a very useful working instrument, and one would like to possess a similar one for more sixteenth-century engravers. The illustrations cover all the certain works by Bos and some of the more doubtful attributions” (from a review by Carl Van de Velde, in The Burlington Magazine, volume 109, July 1967, pp.422-423). ¶ Dust jacket rubbed, small defects; otherwise a very good, unmarked copy.
Amsterdam, London & New York, Van Gendt, Zwemmer & Abner Schram, 1969
Two volumes, I: xiv, 203 pp. II: xiii, 316 plates. Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jackets. - Also published as part of the Hollstein series (volumes 18-19). ¶ From the library of Joseph Clemens, Prinz von Bayern (1902-1990), sold by Schneider-Henn, Kunstbücher und Dokumentation aus der Bibliothek Joseph Clemens Prinz von Bayern, Munich, 11-12 May 1992, lot 1687. Excellent copy
(23 cm), x, 99 (3) pp., 24 p. of plates. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Catalogue accompanying an exhibition held at the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 21 November-24 December 1970. Translation by Lucien Maka of Hieronymus Cock, prentenuitgever en graveur, 1507?-1570 (Brussels: Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, 1970). ¶ Corner of upper wrapper creased. Excellent, unmarked copy.
(26 cm), 86 (6) pp., plus frontispiece, 60 illustrations on 21 leaves (1 folding). Publisher’s brown cloth. - Primarily concerned with the book illustration of Gheeraerts, of which the charming illustrations to Aesop are most familiar. Hodnett here identifies Gheeraerts as the artist responsible for the etchings which illustrate Jan van der Noot’s Het Theatre, published in London in 1568 in Dutch and French editions; as the designer of the woodcut illustrations for Stephen Bateman’s A Christall Glasse, published in 1569; and Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotlande and Irelande, published in 1577. Contains a “Handlist of works” (pp.68-73). ¶ Excellent copy.
(26.5 cm), (8), 278 pp., [101] p. of plates (figs.1-114). Publisher’s black cloth, dust jacket. - Discussion of ephemeral decorations designed by Rubens for the visit in 1635 of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Spain to Antwerp. Rubens was responsible for the design of nine of the twelve arches and stages which lined the route. His modelli are compared with etchings by Theodor van Thulden of the final decorations, published in Caspar Gevaerts’s sumptuous record of the occasion, Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi of 1641-1642. ¶ Several short tears in dust jacket; price clipped. Lacking publisher’s plain card slipcase. Clean, unmarked copy.
(24.5 × 34 cm), 406 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, original pictorial slipcase. - An illustrated catalogue of De Hooghe’s separately published prints. The author claims to have identified more than 100 prints unrecorded in Hollstein’s Dutch and Flemish Engravings (volume IX). Corrigenda by Jochen Becker, in Quaerendo, volume 6 (1976), pp.380-388. ¶ Copy 219 of 1000 copies printed. Lower joint weakening; otherwise a very good copy,
[Cambridge, MA], [Harvard University / the Author], 1974
(28 cm), xxvii, 424 leaves. Reproduction of typescript. Bound in red cloth. - Exhaustive account of the prolific etcher, painter, sculptor, engraver of coins, designer of all kinds of crafts, scholar and Doctor of Law, Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708). Wilson adds much detail to John Landwehr’s catalogues of De Hooghe’s book illustrations (1970) and separately-issued prints (1972); his chapter on the drawings (VIII) is the first and only catalogue of the master’s drawings. The author’s Ph.D. thesis, Department of Fine Arts, Harvard University, 1974 (supervised by Seymour Slive). The thesis was submitted with a series of 157 plates (mostly reproductions of prints); these are not found here. ¶ Presentation inscription on endpaper: For Lisa and Leonard [Baskin] – Your friendship and enthusiasm for my research are deeply appreciated. William H. Wilson. June [19]74. Fore-edge lightly stained.
(22.5 cm), xxxviii (2), 318 (2), (24) pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Facsimile reprint of Amsterdam & Paris 1881 edition. Supplemented by Simon Laschitzer’s additions and corrections, “Berichtigungen, Ergänzungen und Nachträge zu l’oeuvre gravé des van de Passe” in Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft, volume 8 (1885), pp.439-483. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy.
(30.5 cm), 176 pp., 105 text illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - A collection of eight essays, concerned primarily with Heemskerck’s prints and their sources, particularly the influence of the Dutch theologian and moral philosopher Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert, who provided Heemskerck with a large number of didactic, moralistic subjects. “Veldman’s book is undoubtedly one of the best studies so far on the connection between humanism and sixteenth-century Netherlandish art… The book is required in the library of anyone studying Northern European culture in the time” (from a review by Jeremy D. Bangs, in Quaerendo, volume 8, 1978, pp.62-65). ¶ Light shelf-wear.
(27.5 cm), (7) ix, 307 (1) pp., 82 black & white illustrations. Collector’s blue cloth binding, black skiver lettering-piece. - Exhibition of thirty-four of the fifty-two books containing engraved title-pages or illustrations designed by Rubens. The catalogue entries (by seven students enrolled in a Rubens seminar, conducted in the winter of 1976-1977) are accompanied by an introduction (by Julius Held) discussing the reasons for Rubens’s willingness to provide such designs, and by essays on publishing in Antwerp in Rubens’s time, on the relation of the title-pages with their models (23 drawings and oil sketches by Rubens and Erasmus II Quellinus are reproduced), on portraits designed by Rubens in Antwerp publications, and related subjects. Analytical review by Anne-Marie Logan, in Master Drawings, volume 15 (1977), pp.414-415. Cf. Julius Held, “Rubens and the book” in Harvard Library Bulletin, volume 27 (January 1979), pp.114-153. ¶ Lettering-piece rubbed. Excellent, unmarked copy.
(21 cm), (4) (ii) xxxii, 416 pp., 205 numbered illustrations on [68] leaves of plates. Publisher’s cloth binding (no dust jacket issued). - “Following a survey of the origins and early development of print publishing, Cock’s life and his work as an artist are described, and the history of his publishing house, the Quatre Vents, is recounted, with an account of its internal operations. Next, the body of prints it issued is studied from several points of view. The interaction of the styles of the various engravers and etchers working for Cock is examined, with particular emphasis on the influence of the Italian engraver Giorgio Ghisi on the engravers and that of Cock himself on the etchers. The role of the Quatre Vents in the dissemination of knowledge about Italian and antique art in northern Europe is assessed. Certain new trends in print publishing characteristic of the Quatre Vents are studied: the major place given to suites of ornament, architectural, and landscape prints; two sets of prints with political significance (The Victories of Charles V and The Funeral Procession of Charles V); and two collections of portraits, the first of contemporary European rulers and the second of eminent Dutch and Flemish painters. The significance of the suite of prints as a form of publication is briefly discussed. Finally, Cock’s aims and influence as a publisher are considered: the market which existed for his prints, their use by artists and others, and the further development of print publication in Flanders in the late 16th and early 17th centuries” (author’s abstract). ¶ Fine copy.
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, 1978-1983
Three parts in four volumes (26 cm), I (1978): xxxviii (2), 162 (4) pp., illustration nos. 1-827. “Abréviations spéciales et signes conventionnels” loosely inserted (also in following vols.). II (1979): xxii (2), pp.163-343 (3), illustration nos. 828-1739. Addendum loosely inserted. III/1 (1982): xxiv (2), pp.345-511 (3), illustrations 1741-2333. III/2 (1983): (4) pp.513-691 (3) pp. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - The three Wierix brothers were the most famous engravers working in Antwerp between 1570 and 1620, responsible for a huge corpus of prints, including book illustrations for Plantin. In 1932 the Cabinet des Estampes of the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique obtained from the Joseph Havenith collection more than 500 prints of the Wierix brothers. At the time of their acquisition, Mauquoy-Hendrickx was a librarian in the Bibliothèque royale; in 1949, she was appointed adjunct curator of the Cabinet des Estampes, and in 1960 she became curator in succession to Louis Lebeer. During these years and after her retirement in 1971, Mauquoy-Hendrickx studied the Wierix prints in more than 100 collections, painstakingly identifying states, variants, and copies. The results of her research are presented here. “It is a work which it would be difficult to over praise… I have little hesitation in calling this the finest catalogue of old master prints produced since the Second World War” (from a review by Antony Griffiths, in The Burlington Magazine, volume 126, 1984, pp.702-703). ¶ Slight shelfwear. Fine copies.
London & Philadelphia, Harvey Miller / Heyden & Son, 1978
Two volumes (27 cm), I: (8) 362 pp. II: (6), pp.363-552, plus 294 black & white illustrations. Uniform publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jackets. - Catalogue of the book illustrations for which Rubens either provided designs for the engraver (his favourite was Cornelis Galle) or supervised the execution (Erasmus Quellinus). Each illustration or title-page is described in detail, reproduced, and accompanied by a resumé of the contents of the volume it illustrates. An appendix lists all the books published by the Plantin Press in the design of which Rubens had a hand. ¶ Short tear (1 cm) in each dust jacket. Lacking publisher’s plain card slipcase.