The Writings of Albrecht Durer

New York: Philosophical Library, 1958. Quarto in yellow jacket illus in b&w; 288 pages illustrations 23 cm bibliographical references and indexes. Fine in near fine(+) jacket withe a single closeed edge-tear. Please see photos. Now housed in archival mylar. Minor imperfections to cloth. in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover.

Contents: The age of Albrecht Dürer -- Dürer's birth-place and friends -- Dürer's childhood and youth -- Dürer at Venice. The Great Pictures -- Dürer's Great Pictures. The Heller lectures -- Dürer's woodcut publications -- Dürer's journey to the Netherlands -- Dürer's last years -- Dürer's intellectual and religious development; Appendix to Chapter IX -- The growth of Dürer's ideas about art; Appendix to Chapter X -- The teaching of measurements with rule and compass; Appendix to Chapter XI -- The four books of human proportion; Appendix to Chapter XII -- The theory of fortification; Appendix; Dürer's rhymes; Index of passages cited from the British Museum Manuscripts; General index.// Artists -- Correspondence. Human figure in art. Artistes -- Correspondance. Corps humain dans l'art. Artists. Human figure in art. Named Person: Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528. Correspondence. Personal correspondence. Correspondence. Personal correspondence. Correspondance privée.