Making Nuremberg Chronicle Introduction Peter by Wilson Adrian Joyce Lancaster Zahn (1 results)

253, [3] pp. Ephemera laid-in at rear. With numerous b/w & color illustrations. Folio. 35cm x 25cm. Wilson "was an American book designer and author of the influential 1967 work entitled The Design of Books. In 1947, he studied architecture at the University of California, Berkeley but soon left, first to join Jack Stauffacher at the Greenwood Press, and afterwards to join the University of California Press. He developed an interest in early book illustration, leading to his The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle (1976), and (with his wife) A Medieval Mirror (1984), an account of early printed editions of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis. Hart was born in San Francisco, California. He received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University, followed by a Ph.D. from Harvard University. At the University of California, Berkeley, Hart served as chairman of the English department. He was also the university's vice chancellor from 1957 until 1960. In 1969 he was appointed director of the University of California, Berkeley's Bancroft Library. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Antiquarian Society." [Wiki] Here, on a preliminary blank, the Wilson's inscribe, in a calligraphic hand, the book to Hart, "For Jim Hart / in deep apprecation for / serving on The Book Design Foundation / and launching this book at / The Bancroft Library / Adrian & Joyce Wilson" A Nr Fine copy in a VG+ jacket. Black & white cloth binding. Map eps. Dust jacket 1st edition (Cf. Wilson #177). PRESENTATION copy, INSCRIBED by both Wilsons to Jim Hart.