[Heinecken, Karl-Heinrich von] Nachrichten von Künstlern und Kunst-Sache [and] ... Zweyter Theil. Mitvielen Kupfern Leipzig; Wien: Johan Paul Krauss, 1768; 1769 Includes notices of Berlin artists, graphic arts (engravers, early woodcuts & woodcut books), history of printing, and account of a journey through Lower Saxony, Westphalia & and Holland. Part Two, with striking images from early printed books such as the "Eagle of John" from Ars Memorandi, includes "a dissertation on the earliest forms of wood-cutting as applied to the illustration ... Heinecken conjectures that Gutenberg took the idea of printing from the playing-card makers, who are said to have been the first engravers of historical subjects intermingled with texts. ... Heinecken is of opinion that their first productions were taken from wooden blocks." (Bigmore & Wyman) (HISTORY OF PRINTING) First Edition. 2 vols. bound in one vols., 8vo. With 24 folding plates. xxv, 436, [12, index & errata]; [xl], 524, [18, index & errata]. Contemporary three quarter red morocco and marbled boards, spine label. Exterior worn, tear at foot of spine, internally tight and clean. A very good copy. Bigmore & Wyman p.320 Price: USD 1,250.00 other currencies   order no. 36938    inquire

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