Albrecht Dürer
The Little Passion, 1971
Verona: Officina Bodoni
One of 140 copies.
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Octavo. 214, (3)pp. Giovanni Mardersteig has here accumulated and finely reproduced Dürer's significant work completed during the most productive years of his life, from 1508 to 1511. Each of Dürer's...
Octavo. 214, (3)pp. Giovanni Mardersteig has here accumulated and finely reproduced Dürer's significant work completed during the most productive years of his life, from 1508 to 1511. Each of Dürer's illustrations, as in the 1511 first edition, faces the Latin text of poems by Benedictus Chelidonius Musophilus, and together their lyrical efforts, whether in words or images, convey a significantly humanist sense of the Passion of Christ. Mardersteig includes an English translation and, as a conclusion, his own postscript detailing the historical and artistic context of the 1511 publication. Bound in quarter brown leather with tan papers over boards with gilt printer's device to upper cover and gilt titling to spine. Color fugitive at spine, else a fine copy in slipcase. T.e.g. Prospectus laid in.
