‎ROOSES Max - MAES Jos :‎
‎Musée Plantin-Moretus à Anvers, Phototypies par Jos.Maes, Notice Historique et Descriptive par Max Rooses.‎

‎" Anvers, s.d. (ca. 1877), in-4°, 31 x 22 cm, 44 pp + 28 phototypies h.t., publisher's decorated cloth binding, edges gilt, silky endpapers. The front cover shows in a large red centre piece the gilt reproduction of one of the more elaborate Plantin's printer's marks; within a green surrounding. Very nice copy with nicely preserved fresh publisher's binding. This is most probably the second edition of this illustrated description of the new Plantin-Moretus Museum. We handled the very first edition where the plates were real collotypes (only 16 ) In this copy the illustrations are now called 'phototypies' and are printed directly on the book pages. (probably in some sort of half-tone process) There are now 28 plates due certainly to the cheaper reproduction process..Very well preserved copy."‎

Reference : 59422

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