595 - Sachs, Hans. The Fifth and Final Book. A most heartfelt and beautiful collection of new, elegant, refined, and artful verses, compiled into three distinct books. Including: The entire Psalter of the royal prophet David, the Book of Jesus, son of Sirach, the Proverbs and Wisdom of King Solomon, as well as beautiful comedies and tragedies, true secular histories, wondrous tales and deeds, and also a brief, entertaining carnival play, fables, curious tales, dialogues... With a woodcut portrait on the title page, numerous woodcut initials, and decorative elements. Nuremberg, Heußler, 1579. 8 (2 blank) unnumbered leaves, 414 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf; 33.5 x 22 cm. Period blind-stamped pigskin binding over wooden boards (front board cracked, covering creased and with missing sections).

Sachs, Hans. The Fifth and Final Book. A most heartfelt and beautiful collection of new, elegant, refined, and artful verses, compiled into three distinct books. Including: The entire Psalter of the royal prophet David, the Book of Jesus, son of Sirach, the Proverbs and Wisdom of King Solomon, as well as beautiful comedies and tragedies, true secular histories, wondrous tales and deeds, and also a brief, entertaining carnival play, fables, curious tales, dialogues... With a woodcut portrait on the title page, numerous woodcut initials, and decorative elements. Nuremberg, Heußler, 1579. 8 (2 blank) unnumbered leaves, 414 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf; 33.5 x 22 cm. Period blind-stamped pigskin binding over wooden boards (front board cracked, covering creased and with missing sections). First edition of the final volume of the five-volume folio edition. Contains the late works of the poet, who died in 1576. — With an engraved ex-libris of the Baronial family Münch of Aystetten bound in. — Browned or with brown spots in places.