Ad LXX. Interpretum Fidem Diligentissime Talata
Sacra Biblia Ad LXX. Interpretum Fidem Diligentissime Talata
Andreas Cratander, 1526.
8vo in half sheets (204 x 138mm). Eighteenth century half calf, covered in marbled paper. Later blue endpapers. Cratander's printer's device, designed by Hans Holbein The Younger, to the title page and final page of text. Woodcut illustration of the creation of Eve to the first page of Genesis. Woodcut initials to the beginning of each book. A good copy, the binding quite rubbed, with the upper joint cracked (though holding) and the lower joint starting to wear.
An attractively printed Latin Bible from the press of Andreas Cratander at Basel.
Hans Holbein The Younger, one of the great artist's of his century, was a contemporary of Cratander in Basel from 1515 to 1526. He designed Cratander's distinctive printer's device, appearing twice in the present volume, and while in Basel also produced his drawings for his famous Dance of Death sequence, which would be published a decade later. The sole woodcut in the present volume bears a striking resemblance in both composition and style to the opening woodcut of Holbein's Dance of Death, The Creation of Eve from Adam, and is conceivably after a drawing by the artist.
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