Shoveler, Hans

Shoveler, Hans -

The plenary or Ewangely buoch: Summer and winter teyl, through the whole year in a separated Sunday, from the zeyt, and from the saints. Title in red and black with old color. Woodcut border by Urs Graf, 7 almost leaf-size, old colour. Woodcuts by Hans Schäufelein (2 of them in repetition) as well as about 125 altkolor. Text woodcuts (approx. 15 repetitions) by Hans Lützenburger after Hans Schäufelein and Urs Graf. Numbered woodcut initials.
Basel, Adam Petri, 1516. 4°. [8], CCLXXVIII Bll. Pigskin leather strap currently with rich blind embossing (portraits of Erasmus and Hus in the middle, surrounded by portrait rolls with Salvator Mundi, King David, Peter and others) and 2 brass clasps (V-joint with small tear in the cover, slightly stained and hardly rubbed
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VD16 E 4460 - BMC STC German 118 (incompl.) - see Fairfax/ M. 338 (ex. 1514) - not with Adams. - Second edition of this beautifully illustrated prayer book for laymen, first printed in 1514, also by Petri in Basel. The woodcuts are largely identical in both editions, only the title border has been newly created for this one. The large, magnificent Schäufelein woodcuts depict the Crucifixion, Pentecost (double each), the Holy Family, Adoration of the Kings and the Risen Christ. - Hollstein XLIV, 1051-1055 - The title border and many of the smaller text woodcuts by Urs Graf. Fol. 228 and 228v mention the "good and delicious [...] art of trucking" with some comments on its blessings, closing with a lament about people who would rather pay "three shillings in the wine house" than one shilling for a book. - A little bit browned and in places slight marginal stains, fol. 127 with small corner tear (without touching the text). - Provenance: Large printed bookplate Johannes Hartmann on mirror, dat. 1581, with woodcut border. Late. Crest ex libris on intent. - Very nice specimen in bright old colouring.
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