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041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Heaton
245 1 4 $a The History Of The Life Of Albrecht Dürer Of Nürnberg. With A Translation Of His Letters And Journal, And Some Account Of His Works. By Mrs. Charles Heaton.
260 # # $a London: $b Macmillan And Co. $c 1870. [The Right of Translation and Reproduction is reserved.]
300 # # $a xv, [1], 340 p., frontis. (port.), [25] pl.: $b [5] illus.; $c 255 mm. (Quarto.)
505 0 # $a [Half-t., frontis., t.p.] - Preface - Contents - List Of Illustrations - [Text] - Index; [colophon].
508 # # $a The printer is named on the title-page verso and in the colophon: 'London: R. Clay, Sons, And Taylor, Printers, Bread Street Hill.'
510 0 # $a On Mrs. Heaton see C. Monkhouse in The Academy (1883 June 9), p. 408-9; C.R. Sherman and A.M. Holcomb, edd., Women as interpreters of the visual arts, 1820-1979 (1981), p. 13-14.

D. Eichberger and C. Zika, edd., Dürer and his culture (1998); J. Bialostocki, Dürer and his critics (1986).
520 2 # $a The text is a popularising summary of recent German research on Dürer; but ignores some sources (such as the Venice letters) which place Dürer in a less favorable light.

The frontispiece shows a portrait of Dürer. The plates and in-text illustrations show woodcuts and engravings. A note on the title-page verso states, 'Ten of the Illustrations in this volume are reproductions by the Autotype (carbon) process, and are printed in permanent tints by Messrs. Cundall and Fleming, under licence from the Autotype Company, Limited.'
561 # # $a Purchased for RA Library in 1870 (see 'Librarian's Report for the Year 1870', RA Annual Report, Appendix No. 6, p. 28).
562 # # $a The rear pastedown carries the printed ticket of the binder, which reads, 'Bound By Burn & Co. Kirby St E.C.'
563 # # $a 19th-century red cloth, upper cover decorated in black and gold and lettered 'History Of The Life Of Albrecht Dürer.'; gilt-decorated spine lettered 'History Of The Life Of Albert Dürer' and 'Macmillan & Co'.
600 1 4 $a Durer
653 # # $a Painters - Draughtsmen - Engravers - Theorists - Germany - History - 16th century
655 # 0 $a Art history - Biography - Great Britain - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Photographs - Carbon process - Photomechanical prints - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Durer $e source artist
710 2 # $a Macmillan and company $e publisher
710 2 # $a Cundall and Fleming $e photographic printer
710 2 # $a Burn and company $e binder
710 2 # $a R. Clay, Son and Taylor $e printer