The eagerly anticipated English edition of Ina Kok's widely admired and groundbreaking dissertation on the woodcut illustrations in the incunabula printed in the Low Countries between 1475 and 1501 is now available in English!
Even in its original version - in Dutch, unillustrated and rather challenging to navigate
- Ina Kok's dissertation acquired the status of a standard reference work. In the new version - translated into English, fully illustrated, updated, augmented and revised and provided with comprehensive indices - it is destined to fulfill the high expectations of incunabula specialists, book historians in general and historians of medieval and early Renaissance art in particular.
Woodcuts in Incunabula Printed in the Low Countries offers for the first time in the history of bibliography a complete census of the woodcuts in Dutch and Flemish incunabula, a list of all the editions in which they have appeared, as well as an analysis of the woodcuts used by every printer active in the Low Countries between 1475 and 1501.
For her inventory, Ina Kok has developed a very accurate dating system to assess incunabula containing woodcuts. The more than 3,800 distinct woodcuts in Dutch and Flemish incunabula are all reproduced in their actual size in a separate volume. The vast majority of these cuts have never been published before. By paying meticulous attention to the traces of use and wear in the more than 8,000 repeats in later incunabula editions, Kok was able to establish the exact sequence of editions of a number of works in a great number of cases, and provide a more precise date for many of the undated, and even dated, editions. - Text: 2 volumes, 896 pp.
- Illustrations: 2 volumes, 986 pp.
- Illustrations: approx. 4000 black & white illustrations of woodcuts.
PRECIO DE PREPUBLICACIÓN PVP1250,00 euros HASTA 30 DE JUNIO DE 2013, DESPUÉS DE ESA FECHA PVP 1550,00 euros
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