Early Prints

VAN DER STOCK

ISBN 10: 187250129X / ISBN 13: 9781872501291

Published by Brepols N.V., 2002

New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # CW-9781872501291

Synopsis:

The Print Room of the Royal Library of Belgium currently possesses roughly 700,000 independent prints, including a few hundred early woodcuts and engravings from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, which make up one of the most important parts of the collection. In the course of time, only a small portion of these has been recorded in a systematic catalogue. One-and-a-half centuries ago, in 1857, the head curator Louis Alvin catalogued the Library's noteworthy collection of Italian niello prints. Thirty-five years later, in 1892, Max Lehrs, then head of the Dresden Print Room, published the first and only inventory of the collection of fifteenth-century northern engravings in the Royal Library's Print Room. As for the two other parts of the collection included in this book, namely the early woodcuts and the early Italian prints, this is the very first time that each has been examined as a group. Consequently, the exceptionally rich collection of early prints in the Royal Library of Belgium has remained essentially unknown to many thus far. This catalogue is a first step in making the collection better known.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Early Prints
Publisher: Brepols N.V.
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: BPM
Condition: New