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--The highest form of flattery-- / Adrian Wilson and Joyce Lancaster Wilson ; with a leaf from the 1497 edition of the pirated Nuremberg chronicle printed at Augsburg.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio Z241.S31 W48 1982
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Adrian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514. Liber chronicarum.
- Schedel, Hartmann.
- Schönsperger, Johann, -1520?.
- Schönsperger, Johann.
- Cowell Press.
- Books--Pirated editions.
- Books.
- Incunabula--Germany.
- Incunabula.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- 17 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
- Other Title:
- Johann Schonsperger's Augsburg edition of the Nuremberg chronicle
- Place of Publication:
- [Santa Cruz] : Cowell Press, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1982.
- Notes:
- Caption title: Johann Schonsperger's Augsburg edition of the Nuremberg chronicle.
- Preface by John Dizikes gives history of the Cowell Press.
- Edition of 90 copies, 60 bound in half leather and numbered 1-60; 30 in cloth numbered 61-90.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- RBC has copy 73.
- OCLC:
- 8653786
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