Bartsch, Adam von ; Walter L. Strauss ; Robert A. Koch — The Illustrated Bartsch, Volume 17
New York, Abaris Books, 1981. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt letters and lines on spine and front cover, 306 pp. 200+ BW illus. Part of a lengthy series of illustrated picture atlases presenting the reproduction of prints rendered by European masters. Once based primarily on the compilations created by Austrian scholar and artist Johann Adam Bernhard Ritter von Bartsch (1757-1821) in his 21-volume "Le Peintre Graveur." This volume addresses the work of German engravers Hans Brosamer (1495-1554), Daniel Hopfer (1470-1536), his son Hieronymus Hopfer (1500-1550), and Hieronymus' son Lambrecht Hopfer (active 1525-1550). Scarce. VG+ .