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(HIGH LOFT PRESS.) Brandt, Sebastian. Shyp of Fooles.
ONE OF ONLY FIFTY DE LUXE COPIES (HIGH LOFT PRESS.) Brandt, Sebastian. Shyp of Fooles. Translated by Alexander Barclay, 1509. Edited by Phyllis C. Robinson. Woodcut illustrations after the originals by Albrecht Dürer; 6 separate etchings by Robert S. Neuman with lettered tissue guards, each numbered and signed. Volume is 1/4 gilt-lettered calf over boards by Gray Parrot; folder is board with leather gilt cover label; housed in a folding linen clamshell box with paper spine label, few faint fox marks. Prospectus and order form laid in. Seal Harbor, ME., 1984
- Notes: copy fourteen of only fifty de luxe copies with the six signed etchings by neuman, each numbered and signed. The portfolio also includes the text of an essay by John C. Olin relating the "Ship to Paradise" to its roots in literature and art. A full-page aquatint forms the title-page, head- and tailpiece. A beautiful edition of Brandt''s popular and humorous XVIth century tract.
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