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[004301] Schunke, Ilse. Die Einbande der Palatina in der Vatikanischen Bibliothek. Citta del Vaticano: Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, 1962. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). Two volumes in three. Volume One – x, [3], 4-353pp, [1], CLXXX plates; Volume Two – ix, [4], 4-404pp and Volume Three – [4], 405-912pp, [2]. Later cloth, original covers bound in

Dust staining to top edge of text blocks, occasional hint of foxing, but generally fairly bright and clean

Text in German. From the library of John Collins, but no evidence of this

Breslauer, The Uses of Bookbinding Literature, page 24, noting that it “describes the bindings in the library of the Counts Palatine, one of the richest in Germany, taken from Heidelberg as booty by the Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria and presented by him in 1623 to Pope Gregory XV, who incorporated it into the Vatican Library. Her catalogue, with its introductory essays, is one of the most important contributions to Renaissance binding literature, especially with respect to German and Italian bindings, and those by the French Protestant refugees who settled in Heidelberg and Geneva”; “There has been no greater feast for the student of binding for many years than this generously illustrated catalogue of the bindings of the Palatina … No other living expert could have brought such experience to the task or completed it with the same success. Dr Schunke has greatly advanced our knowledge of German binding” (A. R. A. Hobson in The Book Collector, Spring 1963)

Brenni 469; Schmidt-Kunsemuller 3697