DÜRER, ALBRECHT. Underweysung der messung, mit dem zirckel und richtscheyt, in Linien ebnen unnd ganzen corporen. Nuremberg [Hieronymous Formschneyder] 1525. Small folio, 289 x 206mm. (11 3/8 x 8 1/16 in.), eighteenth-century blind-tooled calf over reverse-bevelled wooden boards, a remboîtage, rebacked, edges stained purple, later leather and metal clasps, later endpapers, extremities worn, small gouge to lower cover, minor worming to upper cover, lacking extensions to leaves P4 and Q1 (photocopies loosely inserted), and final blank Q4, quire C and conjugate leaves P2-P3 supplied from another copy, woodcut on D2v shaved at top, some minor worming, a few short marginal tears, title and a few text leaves soiled and stained, some dampstaining, occasional pale foxing . FIRST EDITION, gothic type, title with the three extra lines of small type not present in all copies, numerous text woodcuts of geometrical and architectural figures, roman and gothic alphabets, and two half-page woodcuts of draughtsmen using mechanical apparatus for drawing in perspective, the second signed with Dürer's monogram. Adams D1057; Berlin Katalog 460 7; PMM 54; Stillwell Science 161. The first of three theoretical works that Dürer wrote late in life, his "Instruction in the Art of Measurement" is an attempt to explain the application of geometry to drawing, painting and letter-cutting, and to teach the rules of perspective to artists, architects, sculptors and other craftsmen. It was the second mathematical work to be printed in German, and the first northern European work to relate to the mathematical aspects of artistic representation, embodying the "completely new attitude to artistic creation which had crystallized in Italy during the Renaissance" ( PMM ). Provenance : "Dr. K.O.", ink-stamp on front pastedown and verso of last leaf.
DÜRER, ALBRECHT. Underweysung der messung, mit dem zirckel und richtscheyt, in Linien ebnen unnd ganzen corporen. Nuremberg [Hieronymous Formschneyder] 1525. Small folio, 289 x 206mm. (11 3/8 x 8 1/16 in.), eighteenth-century blind-tooled calf over reverse-bevelled wooden boards, a remboîtage, rebacked, edges stained purple, later leather and metal clasps, later endpapers, extremities worn, small gouge to lower cover, minor worming to upper cover, lacking extensions to leaves P4 and Q1 (photocopies loosely inserted), and final blank Q4, quire C and conjugate leaves P2-P3 supplied from another copy, woodcut on D2v shaved at top, some minor worming, a few short marginal tears, title and a few text leaves soiled and stained, some dampstaining, occasional pale foxing . FIRST EDITION, gothic type, title with the three extra lines of small type not present in all copies, numerous text woodcuts of geometrical and architectural figures, roman and gothic alphabets, and two half-page woodcuts of draughtsmen using mechanical apparatus for drawing in perspective, the second signed with Dürer's monogram. Adams D1057; Berlin Katalog 460 7; PMM 54; Stillwell Science 161. The first of three theoretical works that Dürer wrote late in life, his "Instruction in the Art of Measurement" is an attempt to explain the application of geometry to drawing, painting and letter-cutting, and to teach the rules of perspective to artists, architects, sculptors and other craftsmen. It was the second mathematical work to be printed in German, and the first northern European work to relate to the mathematical aspects of artistic representation, embodying the "completely new attitude to artistic creation which had crystallized in Italy during the Renaissance" ( PMM ). Provenance : "Dr. K.O.", ink-stamp on front pastedown and verso of last leaf.
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