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Title-page + 90 leaves printed on rectos only, each with a reproduction of a woodcut illustration (all but 1 hand-colored) and passages from the Bible. 34.3x25 cm. (13½x9¾"), full pigskin with mock hinges, bound by Walter Tiemann. No. 34 of 75 copies printed on Van Gelder paper with hand-colored plates.

Striking hand-colored reproductions of the woodcut illustrations by the anonymous "Master of the Lübeck Bible" who flourished in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, a Flemish manuscript illuminator and printmaker, named for this series of woodcuts he designed for a Bible printed in Lübeck, Germany, in 1494.