[SCHOENSPERGER, JOHANN]

A Leaf From the 1497 Edition of the Pirated Nuremberg Chronicle Printed at Augsburg

      Augsburg, 1497. Small folio. (1) pp. Referred to "the highest form of flattery" by Adrian Wilson, the pirated edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle was printed at Augsburg by Johann Schoensperger four years after the original Latin and German editions. This is leaf represents folii CXIX and CXX from "Sexta etas mudi" [sic], illustrated with images of various martyrs and popes, and includes of list of martyrs. All woodcuts have been very neatly hand-colored, and many letters in the main text are rubricated. Text in Latin. Light soils to bottom page edge, else a very fine and crisp specimen.