£50
Incunabula, Early Book Illustration, & Manuscripts. Hirth (Georg), Costüme des Sechzehnten Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1883, 2pp of letterpress only, with 330pp of illustrations from early Old Master prints or books, including Dürer and Cranach, some folding, contemporary English burgundy quarter-calf over cloth, slightly rubbed, top-edge stained red as issued, others uncut, marbled endpapers, Foyle's of Charing Cross Road ticket, folio (37 x 27cm); a sammelband of three parts: Heitz (Paul), Originalabdruck von Formschneider-Arbeiten des XVI und XVII Jahrhunderts, two parts, second edition, Strassburg: J.H. Ed. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), 1892 & 1894, profusely illustrated with plates after earlier woodcuts and wood engravings, [bound with] [...] des XVI, XVII & XVIII Jahrhunderts, Strassburg: J.H. Ed. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), 1899, each part retaining their original wrappers, if somewhat chipped, later leather over cloth, folio (40 x 29.5cm); [&] Dodgson (Campbell), Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, Reproduced in Facsimile, with an Introduction and Notes, Manchester: University Press, et al, 1915, loose in gatherings as issued, portfolio of cloth over boards, folio (39 x 29cm); [& Theatre/drama] Greg (W.W.), Dramatic Documents from the Elizabethan Playhouses, Stage Plots: Actors' Parts: Prompt Books, Reproductions & Transcripts volume only, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, n.d. [1931], ex-lib, original publisher's blue cloth, folio (51 x 39cm), (4)
Provenance: 1st: Robert Brydall (1839-1907), Scottish artist, mostly working as a lithographer and engraver, and established tutor at the Glasgow School of Art; his engraved lozenge-shaped bookplate to pastedown.
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