Riederer, Friedrich.

Spiegel der waren Rhetoric: uß M. Tulio C[icero] und andern getütscht [.].

      Freiburg, Friedrich Riederer, 11. XII. 1493. Folio. 188 unn. ff. With title woodcut, page-sized woodcut on reverse of title, half-page woodcut in the text, and printer's device on last page. Calf over wooden boards. First edition of the first German adaptation of a Ciceronian text; at the same time, the only German incunable from a Freiburg press, printed by Freiburg's second printer. The title woodcut is a work of the young Albrecht Dürer. The half-page woodcut (f. LXI v.), showing Dedalus and Icarus, is the earliest printed depiction of a man in flight. "These woodcuts are the earliest (and only dated ones) produced at Freiburg im Breisgau. K. Fischer, the only other printer there in the XV. century, apparently used no woodcuts" (Murray). - First ff. with slight waterstains; margins somewhat browned. Occasional worming. Hain/C. 13914. Goff R-197. GW M38173. BMC III, 696. Schreiber 5096. Walsh 1095. Oates 1340. Proctor 3216. ISTC ir00197000. Fairfax Murray 364. Meder (Dürer) S. 272, no. IV. Pollard 99. Stobbe I, 160. Stintzing/Landwehr I/1, 84. Kaspers 178. Nickisch, Briefsteller 14. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]