[Burgkmair the Elder (Hans)] Images des Saints et Saintes issus de la Famille de l'Empereur Maximilien I, 119 woodcut plates, but lacking title, excellent impressions with some, albeit surprisingly few signs of wear, on fine laid paper, some with watermarked initials, each leaf with full margins approx. 400 x 280 mm. (15 3/4 x 11 in), some minor surface dirt and browning, one or two faint damp-stains, some pencil annotations, later dark green morocco, gilt, folio, [circa 1517-1518, but printed Vienna, 1799].

Provenance: Charles Dorrien, armorial bookplate to front pastedown

Literature: cf. Hollstein 622

⁂ The quality of the present impressions is down to the woodblocks, along with those for the Triumphs of Emperor Maximilian, having been preserved in the Imperial Library, Vienna, with few if any publications being produced after their initial printing. The blocks are said to have been cut by the engravers Hans Frank, Corneille Liefrank, Aléxis, Lindt, Josse de Negkher, Wolfgang Resch, Hans Taberith, Guilleaume Taberith and Nicolas Seemann, after designs by Burgkmair.