[BOOK ILLUSTRATION -- WOODCUTS]. -- [VERGILIUS MARO, Publius.  Opera. Strassburg: Johannes   Gruninger, 1502.]

Folio (300 x 212 mm). 12 leaves of Virgil's Opera, with 13 woodcut illustrations and one woodcut initial with hand-coloring, comprising: ff. I, VIII, XX, LXX, XCVI, CLXII, CLXXXI, CLXXXVII, CCIII,CCIIII, CCVII, CCXVIII. (A few small mostly marginal wormtracks). Loose in board portfolios.  

Edited by Sebastian Brant, this edition is considered one of the great German woodcut books of the Renaissance including woodcuts by the artist known as the Late Master of the Gruninger Workshop.  


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