print; illustrated book

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Object Type: print; illustrated book
Museum number: 1972,U.97
Description: Plutarch (translated by Erasmus), '[Moralia] Plutarchi Chaerone[n]sis opuscula quaeda[m],Des.Erasmo...' (Basel: Johannes Froben) 1518; book in Latin (from Greek) of 194 numbered pages; woodcut title-border with grotesques, Christ's face, and Tarquin, three text borders (of same grotesque blocks arranged differently), printer's device and small initials by Ambrosius Holbein; large initials by Hans Holbeing the Younger; in modern hardcover binding. 1518 Woodcut and letterpress
Producer name: Print made by: Ambrosius Holbein (title border, text borders, small initials); Print made by: Hans Holbein the Younger (large initials); Block cut by: Jacob Faber (device); Published by: Johann Froben
School/style: German; Swiss
Production date: 1518
Production place: Published in: Basel
Materials: paper
Technique: woodcut; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 211 millimetres (approx sheet size); Width: 150 millimetres (approx sheet size)
Bibliographic references: Paisey 2002 / Catalogue of German printed books to 1900 (322); Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700 (3, 10, 26, 28) (Ambrosius Holbein)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: ancient history
Associated names: Associated with: Plutarch (author); Associated with: Desiderius Erasmus (translator); Named in inscription: Willibald Pirckheimer; Named in inscription: Philipp Melanchthon
Associated titles
Acquisition name: Transferred from: British Library (Transferred as duplicate in 1889; originally acquired 1847,1021.812)
Acquisition date: 1889
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1972,U.97

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