‎BAEDEKER, Karl‎
‎The Rhine‎

‎Early Engravers and their Public The Master of the Berlin Passion and Manuscripts from Convents in the Rhine-Maas Region, ca. 1450-1500‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2004 Hardcover with dusjacket, 384 pages ., 178 b/w ill. + 67 colour ill. + + ills., 225 x 300 mm, Languages: English. ISBN 9781872501529.‎

‎This is a book about the production and reception of engravings and metalcuts in the Rhine-Maas region during the second half of the fifteenth century. The Master of the Berlin Passion played a pivotal role in the printmaking industry of the Lower Rhine during this period. He, together with the engravers working in his ambit, specifically targeted their prints at the growing market for illustrated devotional manuscripts, doing so to an extent unparalleled by engravers elsewhere in Europe. As a result, experimental hybrid books combining manuscript and engraving were a phenomenon that flourished particularly in the Rhine-Maas region during the fifteenth century. The first part of this book deals with the production of engravings and metalcuts for the manuscript market, concentrating specifically on the Master of the Berlin Passion and the engravers and metalcutters in his circle. The motives of these printmakers related to broader cultural and social changes during the latter half of the fifteenth century. These were critical years of transition in methods of book production as printmakers and manuscript-makers across Europe strove to exploit the potential of new print technology combined with traditional craft skills. The second part of the book concentrates on the public for whom these printmakers worked. Prints that were pasted, bound or sewn into contemporary manuscripts, and which still remain in position, provide an unparalled opportunity to study the audiences of engravings and metalcuts. The vast majority of fifteenth-century prints no longer survive, and most of those that do are divorced from the original contexts in which they were used. These manuscripts thus provide an invaluable insight into the production, reception, circulation, meanings and functions of prints in the Rhine-Maas region at this time. The predominantly female ownership of Rhine-Maas manuscripts with inserted engravings is a major theme of the book. Most of the manuscripts discussed are vernacular prayerbooks or Books of Hours that belonged either to nuns or to members of the lay female gentry in the Low Countries. In many cases the books can be linked to the pietistic reform movement of the Devotio Moderna suggesting that, as in other areas of Northern Europe, there was a link between the use of prints and movements of monastic reform. This book contributes to our understanding of an important circle of print artists and their public; early uses of printing during the period of transition from manuscript to print; the functions of, and aesthetic attitudes towards, engravings in the fifteenth century and the role of engravings in religious devotion prior to the Reformation, particularly among women. Review "Tant pour l'analyse exemplaire d'une production parfaitement localis e, que pour la clart de la m thode utilis e, la rigueur de la d monstration comme de la documentation, et l'importance des probl matiques soulev es, cet ouvrage sera d sormais une r f rence essentielle sur l'illustration et l'usage du livre la fin du Moyen ge, et les mutations artistiques, intellectuelles, religieuses et sociales qu'il r v le" (C. Heck dans le Bulletin Monumental, N 164-III, 2006, p.324-326) "This book is to be highly recommended to historians of visual art, late-medieval and early-modern culture, and gender studies. this excellent book is richly illustrated."A. Stewart in Speculum, April 2006, p. 627-628)‎

‎"The romans on the Rhine Collection ""Rheinisches land "" Volume 4 Sommaire: Caesar's advance to the Rhine; Economic boom in the Rhineland under the romans; Roman architecture; Life in the country ..."‎

‎Au bureau du journal. non daté. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 91 pages augmentées de quelques photos en noir et blanc dans et hors texte. Jaquette légèrement déchirée sur premier plat.. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎

‎Sommaire: Caesar's advance to the Rhine; Economic boom in the Rhineland under the romans; Roman architecture; Life in the country ... Texte écrit en anglais. Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎

‎Two manuscript journals of travels on Continental Europe, including Waterloo, Cologne, the Rhine, the Alps, Geneva, Chamonix and Mont Blanc, and Italy, ‎

‎ ca. 1853 - 1858. in-8vo, First journal: 90 leafs illustrated with: 18 dried plants (with name and origine), 14 hand-coloured aquatints or engravings, 11 uncoloured engravings, 1 chromolith. of the Strassbourg clock, 6 tinted lithographs.Second journal: 78 leafs illustrated with: 3 dried plants, 11 hand-coloured aquatints or engravings, 19 uncoloured engravings and two photographs of paintings. Contemporary half calf / Contemporary limp calf,‎

‎Each of the manuscripts is dated on theire first page and have the name ,Bertha Henrietta Horatio Mann’ on it. Bertha Mann was the daughter of Horatio Mann, Rector of Mawgan in Meneage, the youngest of 8 children, born in 1836 in Cornwall. However at the time of these travels the family was living at ,Winchester House’, Newchurch, Isle of Wight, and their father had died.They appear from the 1851 census to have been living in some style, with a footman, ladies maid, housemaid and cook. Bertha travelled with her sister and they were also accompanied by ,Henry’, who organised their travels but is otherwise unknown. The sisters first tour began April 19th 1854, leaving Dieppe and visiting Waterloo: „a few trees still remain and bear marks of the French cannon-shot“. One of the dried plants was collected at Waterloo. They travel to Cologne, take a steamer up the Rhine and, among other places, visit the house of Frankfurt where the Famely has once lived and where their brother „dear Horatio“ had had a fatal accident aged 14. Bertha begins her account in English, but about half way through switches to German. The tour ends in October. Appended to this tour is an account of an earlier tour, begun August 30th 1854, from Dieppe to the Alps, with visits to Geneva, Courmayeur, Chamonix and Aosta. They visit the ,Mer de Glace’ on mules: „when we arrived at Montanvert we descended and walked a little way on the Mer de Glace with the help of the guide’s hand and Alpenstock... They ascended the Col de la Seigne, „summit of the Brevent 8500 ft. above the sea level“, making long journeys on mules. Bertha collected plants on the Montanvert, the Brevent, and Chamonix, and three of these feature in the album, each identified and dated by her.In 1858, Bertha set off again with her sisters Sophia, Ada, Louisa and with Henry. Bertha describes visit in Florence, such as the Grand Duke’s Mosaic Manufactory, and some artist studios: „Sophy, Ada & I visited Cambi’s studio - we then went to Menconi’s and saw the ,sleeping child’. Menconi is now doing Henry’s bust and a vase etc... Powers (the American Sculptor) and several other studios. They continued to Rome, via Civitavecchia. At St. Peters they see the Pope distribute palms (“Henry procured tickets for us from the Major Duomo“). Image disp.‎

‎"A Picturesque Tour along the Rhine, from Metz to Cologne ; with illustrations of the scenes of remarkable events, and of popular traditions. Embellished with twenty-four highly finished and coloured engravings, from the drawings of M. Schutz ; and accompanied by a map. Translated from the German by John Black."‎

‎".: London, published by R. Ackermann, 1820, large in-4°, 33,5 x 27,2 cm, XIV pp + (2)nn pp + 178 pp + 24 full page coloured engravings + 1 folding map (complete). With the list of subscribers. Folding map with the routes hand-coloured . Bound in later quarter red morocco, raised gilt and decorated spine, top edge gilt. (signed binding Bayntun - Rivière of Bath). Title page with a closed tear in the fore-margin, very occasional slight offsetting and toning of text, else a very nice and clean copy. Plates 1, 4, 11 , 13 , 17 , 21 , 23 are unnumbered (thus from the first issue); text watermarked II S&S, 1817 , 1818 and 1819 ; plates watermarked ''Turkey Mills 1818 ?''. Abbey Travel item 217. Tooley item 234. This is a fine copy of one of the quintessential English colour plate books and one of the finest Rhine-Albums ever published. The first edition, in German, appeared in 1819, without illustrations. Schütz designed for this English illustrated edition some beautiful views of Bacharach , Bingen , Boppard , Braubach , Johannisberg , Koblenz , Köln, Mainz , Oberwezel, St. Goar ..[...].."‎

‎LORD LYTTON'S NOVELS (Ernest Maltravers. Alice, Or the Mysteries. The last days of Pompeii. Leila, Or the Siege of Granada, Calderon the Courtier, The Pilgrims of the Rhine)‎

‎George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. Non daté. In-8. Relié demi-cuir. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. Env. 600 pages (plusieurs paginations). Recueil. Texte sur 2 colonnes. Titre et filets dorés sur le dos. Etiquette de code sur la couverture. Quelques tampons de bibliothèque.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎

‎Ernest Maltravers. Alice, Or the Mysteries. The last days of Pompeii. Leila, Or the Siege of Granada, Calderon the Courtier, The Pilgrims of the Rhine. Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎