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THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE KENNETH JOHN HEWETT

K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
Lot 211

OECOLAMPADIUS (JOHANNES)
Annotationes piae ac doctae in Evangelium Joannis, FIRST EDITION, Basel, Cratander & Bebel, June 1533

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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OECOLAMPADIUS (JOHANNES)

Annotationes piae ac doctae in Evangelium Joannis, FIRST EDITION, woodcut devices on title and at end, fore-margin of first 2 leaves slightly wormed, contemporary German blind- and gilt-stamped brown calf over bevelled wooden boards, by the Breslau/Wrocław binder "H.B.", the upper cover impressed in gilt with the title and date (1535), a roll-border and an oval panel of St. John the Baptist (patron Saint of Wrocław), the lower cover decorated in blind with Johann Hess's heraldic roll and small tools (including rampant lion with "I.H." initials), lacking one clasp, neatly refurbished at extremities of spine, preserved in black morocco-backed solander box by James Brockman [Adams O93], 8vo, Basel, Cratander & Bebel, June 1533

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A WROCŁAW/BRESLAU BINDING MADE FOR JOHANN HESS, BY THE BINDER "H.B.", DATED 1535. Goldschmidt describes the decoration on another binding made for Hess with the same initials ("I.H.") and date 1525, as "one of the earliest, if not the earliest, dated roll known... it is also remarkable as one of the few rolls clearly bearing the initials, not of the binder, nor of the stamp cutter, but of the owner of the book" (Gothic and Renaissance Bookbindings II, 1967, p.320).

Provenance: Johann Hess, or a member of his circle, with Hess's initials on the binding. Hess (1490-1547) was the first evangelical pastor of Wrocław, having met both Luther and Melancthon in 1519; K.J. Hewett, bookplate.

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