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Bamler's earliest book with precise date - April 22,
1472 - latest April 13, 1495. But his output
during the last 12 years of this period was
less than 45 of that of his first eleven.
Schreiber 4131 "Les dim moy. des 67, g.s.b. se trouvant dans
le texte sont de 80: 115mm. et elles sont, pour
la plupart, encadrees de deux traits carnes.
Au debut: Hecube, Son enfant (Paris). Priam
se tient a droite sous une porte ouverte, par
laquelle on a percoit dans le lointain la ville de
Troie en flammes."
HEHL 103164 no rub. Goff C-780 Strassburg 1499. Hain 5519. B. Kistler
with woodcuts - in this edition my leaf is blatt LXI (verso)
to Lxii (verso) - wording is the same.
Total of c (100) blatt.

Bamler - the 3rd pritner in his native
Augsburg. He is known at one time to have
been a rubricator, having signed one of
Eygestein's Bibles + dated his work "1466."
He printed some 80 books + he was one of
the few 15th C pritners whose books as
mostly in the vernacular.
- The prose epic of Guido de Colonna which became the most
popular medieval version of the story of the Trojan War, is based
on Benoit de St. Maur's Roman de Troie "In the histories of
Dares + Dictys, everything that, in Himer, related to the
mythology + the flights of the gods was expunged and
thus in the tale of Troy a vacanvy was left for the
introduction of romantic embellishment" (Denlap,
History of Fiction).