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SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. Liber chronicarum cum figuris et ymaginibus. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493. Imperial folio, 457 x 323 mm. (18 x 12 5/8 in.), early seventeenth-century English blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, covers panelled with triple fillets and a large "Tudor crested" roll, rebacked, most of original spine preserved, brass catchplates, lacking clasps, edges red-sprinkled, rubbed, lower portion of title-leaf restored, not affecting text, marginal repairs to Europe map catching upper border of woodcut, fols. CCLVIIII and CCLX supplied from another copy with upper margins extended (possibly in facsimile), blank leaf 55/6 (following the supplement on Sarmatia) also supplied, with lower margin extended, fol. CCLXVII supplied with repair to initial space affecting 4 letters of heading on verso skilfully supplied in ink facsimile, fols. XC, XCI, XCII, CVIII, CLXXXIIII with restorations along gutters (occasionally affecting woodcuts), these and a few other leaves probably also supplied from other copies, repaired tears to fols. LXXII, LXXV, LXXXVII, XCI and CCLXI, lower corner of fol. CXLIIII restored affecting lower portion of woodcut on recto, touched up in neat facsimile, several other repairs to margins and corners, some mostly marginal dampstaining, occasional softening and fraying to lower edges, a few small stains, marginal soiling . Collation: [1-2 6 3 8 4 6 5-7 4 8-11 6 12 2 13 4 14-16 6 17 2 18-19 6 20-25 4 26-29 6 30 2 31 6 32 4 33-35 6 36 2 37 4 38-61 6]. 326 (of 328) leaves, lacking the two final blanks. 4/1-61/3 foliated I-CCXCIX with errors, quire 55 (often bound at the end), "De Sarmacia regione Europe", without printed foliation. Types 9:165 G (headings), 16:110B G (text). 64 lines and headline. Xylographic title, 2- and 3-line pearled Lombard initials, 645 woodcuts repeated to a total of 1809 illustrations (Sydney Cockerell's count), including 2 double-page maps, of the world (Shirley 19) and Europe, 29 town views extending across two pages, and 8 full-page cuts, by Michael Wohlgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, initial spaces for larger initials, unrubricated (the large initials on fols. 1 and CCLXVIII sketchily supplied in brown ink). Fols. CCLVIIv-CCLXVIIIr in the later, corrected state, with capital "A"s present. HC 14508*; BMC II, 437; Schreiber 5203; Sabin 77523 Adrian Wilson The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle (Amsterdam 1976); Goff S-307. FIRST EDITION of the Nuremberg Chronicle, a history of the world compiled by the physician Hartmann Schedel with the assistance of Conrad Celtis and Hieronymus Münzer. Abundant documentation survives concerning the printing and publishing history of this edition along with the German-text edition published five months later, both illustrated with the same woodcuts. The original printer's copy, preserved in the Nuremberg City Library, shows how precisely the complex layout was mapped out ahead of time, while a surviving contract between the publishers and the Wohlgemuth-Pleydenwurff atelier, dated December 1491, reveals that the artists agreed to supply the woodcuts at rigorously planned intervals to avoid delays in the printing. Other documents show that numerous copies of the book were distributed in large quantities to stationers throughout Europe, from Cracow to Lyon. The present copy, with its numerous English inscriptions and annotations, was probably originally sold in England. Provenance : William Grene, early sixteenth-century inscription on fol. CCLXI (crossed out), stating that he is the owner of the book "post mortem William Panell" -- Xaspar Lodge, sixteenth-century ownership inscription on same leaf -- John Bromley signature on same leaf -- George Bromley, inscription on title dated 1 December 1563, stating that he had inherited this book from his father George Bromley -- George Covey (?), inscription on fol. 3/8v: dated August 7 1588: "Deus omnia verbo suo condidit. Nam