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A heavenly craft : the woodcut in early printed books : illustrated books purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald at the sale of the library of C.W. Dyson Perrins
- Title
- A heavenly craft : the woodcut in early printed books : illustrated books purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald at the sale of the library of C.W. Dyson Perrins / edited by Daniel De Simone.
- Publication
- New York : George Braziller ; Washington : Library of Congress, 2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | NE1052 .H43 2004q Oversize | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiii, 222 pages : illustrations (some color); 32 cm
- Summary
- "At auction in 1946 and 1947 were books from what Paul Needham calls "the magnificent library" of the noted English book collector C.W. Dyson Perrins, heir to the Lea & Perrins fortune. One of the first important book auctions to follow World War II, the Dyson Perrins sale had among its bidders the agent for Lessing J. Rosenwald, the Philadelphia collector who a few years earlier had made arrangements for his collection of illustrated books to go to the Library of Congress and his collection of prints to the National Gallery of Art." "A Heavenly Craft explores both books and art. Here, Daniel De Simone, curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection at the Library of Congress, begins to build on nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship in early woodcut illustration. He challenges scholars to bring the substantial work of bibliographers of the 1930s and earlier up to date."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Rosenwald, Lessing J. 1891-1979 > Art collections > Exhibitions
- Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Library
- Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
- Rosenwald, Lessing J. 1891-1979
- Rosenwald, Lessing J
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) > Exhibitions
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- 1400-1599
- Geschichte 1450-1600
- Wood-engraving, Renaissance > Exhibitions
- Illustration of books > 15th century > Exhibitions
- Illustration of books > 16th century > Exhibitions
- Early printed books > Europe > Exhibitions
- Wood-engraving > Private collections > Washington (D.C.) > Exhibitions
- Incunabula > Exhibitions
- Wood-engraving > 15th century > Exhibitions
- Incunabula > Bibliography > Exhibitions
- Wood-engraving
- Incunabula
- Art > Private collections
- Early printed books
- Illustration of books
- Libraries
- Wood-engraving > Private collections
- Wood-engraving, Renaissance
- Holzschnitt
- Illustration
- Sammlung
- Houtsneden
- Oude drukken
- Particuliere verzamelingen
- Europe
- Washington (D.C.)
- Genre/Form
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs
- Ausstellungskatalog – 2004 – New York, NY.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Catalogues d'exposition.
- Note
- Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Grolier Club, N.Y., Dec. 2004, the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Apr. 2005 and the Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist Texas, Sept. 2005.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-215) and index.
- Contents
- Lessing J. Rosenwald and the "magnificent library" of C.W. Dyson prints / Paul Needham -- Venetian and Florentine Renaissance woodcuts for Bibles, liturgical books and devotional books / Lilian Armstrong -- The stylistic development of German book illustration, 1460-1511 / Daniela Laube -- Catalogue / Daniel De Simone.
- ISBN
- 0807615366
- 9780807615362
- LCCN
- 2004007145
- OCLC
- ocm54857732
- 54857732
- SCSB-1350083
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library