Ein schöne warhaftige Hystory von Keiser Karolus sun genant Loher oder Lotarius wie er verbant ward siben iar vss dem künigreich und wie er sich die selbig zeit so ritterlich bruchte, das er zületst Römscher keiser, und im ussgeschniten ward.

Folio: cxxvi [= 124] ff. (some spotting and soiling, sl. browning, minor foxing).

19th-c. brown morocco signed by F. Bedford, covers ruled with blind-st. and gilt borders and gilt corner tools, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, a.e.g., edges with gilt double fillet. Nice copy.

Extr. rare 1st and only copy of this famous epic in the German transl. by Elizabeth of Lorraine-Vaudémont, Countess of Nassau-Saarbrücken (ca. 1395-1456), based on a French chanson de geste "Loher & Maller". Printed in Gothic. Ill. with numerous woodcut initials and 37 (4 almost full-page) woodcuts in-text (25 of them from 2 blocks each). Large woodcut on the title figuring a King with his court. Only 5 copies can be found in public libraries (USTC, VD16).
Ref. VD16 S-3414. - USTC 646651. - STC German (BL) 528.
Prov. Henry Huth (1815-1878) and Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), prominent English bibliophiles (bookpl. "Ex Museo Huthii"). - Gérard de Berny (1880-1957), French politician (armorial bookpl.).