Includes:

• Wahl, Hanz, editor. Die 92 Holzschnitte der Lübecker Bibel aus dem Jahre 1494 von einem unbekannten Meister. 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. Weimar: Gustav Kiepenheuer, 1917.
• Courboin, François. Histoire Illustrée de la Gravure en France. Ire Partie, Des Origines a 1660. Atlas volume. [16] pp. title & prelims. (incl. list of plates) + 2 unnumbered plates & 486 numbered reproductions on fewer plates; printed tissue guards. 45x31.5 cm. (18x12¼"), unbound as issued. No. 455 of 750 copies. First Edition. Paris: Chez Maurice le Garrec, 1923.

Together, 2 volumes.

The first features 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. The second is an important work tracing the history of printing and engraving in France - this atlas to the first volume covers to 1660 - the entire set, published 1923-1929, numbered four text volumes in folio and 3 atlas volumes in large folio. Included is a specimen title-page and plate (the title a bit soiled).