BOOKS
Karin Boveland, Christoph Peter Burger, Ruth Steffen (red.).
Der Antichrist: Faksimile der ersten typographischen Ausgabe / Der Antikrist und die Fünfzehn Zeichen vor dem Jüngsten Gericht: Kommentaarband. [2 vols.]
Hamburg, Friedrich Wittig Verlag, 1979.
€ 35.00
Bound, cloth in original cloth slipcase, , 40+158pp., , richly illustr. in b/w., in very good condition (slipcase with some light traces of use and few moisture spots, bindings and inside very good), nr. 284 of 1000 numbered copies.
A complete facsimile edition of the first typographic edition (c. 1480) of Der Antichrist, an early German printed work describing the 'Antichrist' and concluding with the Fifteen Signs of the Last Judgment. The facsimile is based on a copy held by the City and University Library of Frankfurt am Main. The book is richly illustrated with woodcuts from the original edition and is accompanied by an extensive commentary by experts in early printing and medieval iconography.





