IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 98403 accession number: PB 1913.1 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 20 May 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 2 v. : fronts., ill., plates, ports., facsims ; 34 cm. object type: "The term 'German' will be found somewhat comprehensive, including many of the productions of the presses of Holland, Belgium and Switzerland, and a few of Austria-Hungary ... The period in which these books fal is c. 1455 to 1680 ... The majority of the books are of the 15th and 16th centuries ... In assembling this (German) portion of the library more attention has been given to the decorative part of the book than to merely the typographical side. A representative collection therefore has been made of many of the principal books with woodcuts, commencing with the earliest xylographs..."--Pref. Full descriptions, including exact transcription of title (or first lines) and colophon; statement of type, size, binding, and former owner; note of the edition and of other editions; bibliographical references; running description; description of the woodcuts; memoranda on text; biographical notes; and collations. Numerous facsimiles. Companion work to the Catalogue of a collection of early French books in the library of C. Fairfax Murray issued in 2 vols., 1910. Indexes: I. Authors & persons mentioned. II. Titles, subjects and places. III. Artists (designers & cutters). IV. Printers and publishers. V. Names of former owners. object type: Compiled by Hugh Wm. Davies title: Catalogue of a collection of early German books in the library of C. Fairfax Murray LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/98403 TECHNIQUES ---------- printing CATEGORIES ------ category: book DATING ------ creation date: 1913 - 1913 creation date earliest: 1913 creation date latest: 1913 CREATORS -------- maker: Murray, Charles Fairfax maker: Davies, Hugh Wm.