Liber Chronicarum (Book of Chronicles) SCHEDEL, Hartmann Antiquarian,Literature

A rare original double printed leaf of incunabula printed in 1493 from Hartmann SCHEDEL'S. Liber Chronicarum (Book of Chronicles) known as the Nuremberg Chronicle. Includes 12 named portrait woodcuts. Nicks on outer margin not affecting the text. The Chronicle was first published in Latin on 12 July 1493 in the city of Nuremberg. The publisher and printer was Anton Koberger, the godfather of Albrecht Durer, who in the year of Durer's birth in 1471 ceased goldsmithing to become a printer and publisher. He quickly became the most successful publisher in Germany, eventually owning 24 printing presses and having many offices in Germany and abroad, from Lyon to Budapest. Albrecht Durer was an apprentice with Wolgemut from 1486 to 1489, so may well have participated in designing some of the illustrations for the specialist craftsmen (called "formschneider"s) who cut the blocks onto which the design had been drawn, or a drawing glued. From 1490 to 1494, Durer was travelling. A drawing by Wolgemut for the elaborate frontispiece, dated 1490 is in the British Museum. Any examples of works pre-1500 incunables are extremely rare.