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Synopsis
Excerpt from Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts, Vol. 1: Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings, in the British Museum
Of these Part II, dealing with the German woodcuts of the first half of the XVI century, will be the most important both numerically and artistically, and will include eight divisions, viz. School of Nuremberg; (b) School of Augsburg; (c) Schools of Bavaria, Wurtem berg, Austria, and Poland; (d) Saxon and North German Schools; (e) Swiss School; (f) Schools of the Upper and Middle Rhine; (g) School of Cologne; (h) Anonymous cuts of unknown origin. The present volume includes Part I (xv century woodcuts Without distinction of school) and Part II, Division A (school of Nuremberg down to It is hoped that the remaining divisions of Part II may be completed in a second volume.
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