Items matching page images taken from Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (1878)

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Engravings from “Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance” (Book-Ornament of the Renaissance) by A. F. Butsch, Leipzig, 1878. Alfred Butsch was a famous bookseller and a collecter of antiquarian books; the engraved plates in the book reproduce illustrations from early printed books.

I bought my copy of this book (actually Volume II hasn’t arrive yet!) from a bookseller in Germany; there is also a fac simile by Dover, but the reproduction is not of the highest quality, so these images are better, if very incomplete.

Plate 62, Dance of Death Alphabet (overview)

Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (1878)

Plate 62 is Holbein’s Dance of Death alphabet. I am making the individual letters available at higher resolution; this image is just a place to put the notes and to let you get a feel for the whole a [...]

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Added: 2009-03-10

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captions for plates 57 – 64

Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (1878)

The captions are in German, and I cannot understand them. If you want to send them to me (UTF-8 please!) I’ll put the transcriptions up on the pages for the corresponding plates.

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Title Page

Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (1878)

The title page has been printed in two colours, and includes an ornate decorative border. (I can make the border available as a separate image without the text on request; use the Comment link). DIE B [...]

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Added: 2009-03-07

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