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Page from a printed bible with wood block print of St. Anthony the Abbot defeated the devil. |
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This early leaf consists of text printed in gothic letter in two columns, illustrated with a hand-colored woodcut engraving of St. Anthony the Abbot defeated the devil. An original leaf from the 1483 Bible in German printed in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger. Hand-drawn stylized initial letters. Anthony Koberger was a German printer, publisher, and bookseller, b. about 1445: d. at Nuremberg, 3 October, 1513. He was descended from an old family of skilful artisans who had belonged to the town council as early as 1350, and was a goldsmith before he became a printer. Koberger's printing-house quickly developed an activity reaching out in all directions, and about 200 works appeared before the year 1500, mostly in folio form and some in bindings.
After Anthony Koberger's death (1513), his cousin Hans Koberger, some ten years his junior took charge of the business as trustee for Anthony's children. He, too, was a business man of great ability and under Anthony's supervision had from the year 1480 displayed great business activity, especially in foreign countries. He took charge of the business trader the most difficult of partnership relations until the children were of age. The eldest son Anthony, a way-ward youth, died in 1532; the second, Hans the younger, was actively engaged in the business of the house until his death in 1552. The publishing-house and the retail book trade were gradually given up before 1532
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