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LOCHER, Jacobus (1471-1528). Panegyricus ad Maximilianum. -Tragoedia de Turcis et Soldano. -Dialogus de heresiarchus . Strassburg: Johann Grüninger, 1497. Chancery 4° (199 x 141mm). Collation: A-B 6 C 8 D 4 E-F 6 G 4 H 8 I 4 K 6 L 4 (A1r title, A1v full-page woodcut, A2r epigrams to the reader, letter to Conrad Sturtzel, A4r elegy on Sturzel, A4v address to Sigismund Kreutzer, A5v epigram on Kreutzer, all by Locher, A6v woodcut, verses to the poet, B1v panegyric and other texts, L4v blank). 62 leaves. 30 lines and headline. Type: 17:145G, 22:89G. Full-page woodcut and 18 half-page woodcuts, one woodcut space left blank on B6r as in some copies. Some woodcuts touched with red, red capital strokes. (Small tear in woodcut on first leaf neatly repaired without loss.) Early 20th-century red morocco gilt stamped flowering vine with green morocco onlays on both covers, gilt inner dentelles, marbled and gilt edges, by Lortic. Provenance : Edward Arnold (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. The present copy is one of several without the half-page woodcut depicting the arms of Maximilian on B6r. Thus this copy has 19 woodcuts from 16 blocks, 9 of which are composed of blocks first used in Grüninger's Terence, and 2 of which first appeared in the Narrenschiff . The new woodcuts are in the style of the Master of the [Grüninger] Terence. The first full-page cut showing Locher as poet laureate was subsequently used (and possibly originally designed specifically for) the Horace edited by Locher the following year (see von Arnim 212 and Davies 242). With "christo" spelled correctly in the colophon, woodcut Greek on K6v, L1r, L2v, and misprints on L2v and L3r as in Davies. HC *10153; BMC I, 112 (IA. 1467-8); Goff L-264; Polain(B) 2505; CIBN L-202; Schreiber 5413; Schramm XX p.23; IDL 2980; IGI 5789; Davies Murrary German 242.