Das Leben und die Werke Albrecht Duerer's (catalogue raisonné / Werkverzeichnis of the work of Albrecht Dürer / Durer)

Bamberg and Leipzig: Kunz and Brockhaus, 1827-1831. Three parts bound in one volume, COMPLETE. These three parts were originally intended to be the second volume of a three-volume study, but no more was published. This volume, however, is the complete catalogue raisonné and bibliography, the first comprehensive catalogue devoted to this great artist and a groundbreaking work of art-historical scholarship. In all, X + 1090 pages and three plates, one folding. In Part I, Heller describes hundreds of paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Part II features 2,555 prints, of which the vast majority are copies, fakes, and prints after works by Dürer: unlike later cataloguers of the master's work, Heller describes these apocryphal works in great detail, providing hundreds of small woodcut illustrations of details which distinguish the originals from the copies. To this day, Heller remains the definitive source on early copies of Dürer's work. Part III, which is often missing (as it was published four years later, by a different publisher, and in a different city) is a detailed critical bibliography describing 216 items, as well as a catalogue of medallions relating to Durer. Thick 8vo, bound in contemporary boards. Some wear to extremities of boards, but still solid. Internally FINE AND BRIGHT. Very rare.