E-text prepared by deaurider, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 57428-h.htm or 57428-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57428/57428-h/57428-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57428/57428-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/petervischer00head Transcriber’s note: Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). The reader will encounter "[TN1]" once. [TN1] identifies an error in the original book: “ETSAXA” should have been “ET SAXA”. The reader will encounter [TN2] three times. [TN2] identifies a place where a character could not be reproduced and was replaced by an apostrophe (example: "PETR’[TN2]). HANDBOOKS OF THE GREAT CRAFTSMEN. EDITED BY G. C. WILLIAMSON, LITT.D. PETER VISCHER ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Handbooks of the Great Craftsmen. -------------- Illustrated Monographs, Biographical and Critical, on the Great Craftsmen and Workers of Ancient and Modern Times. Edited by G. C. WILLIAMSON, Litt.D. Imperial 16mo, with numerous Illustrations, 5s. net each. First Volumes of the Series THE PAVEMENT MASTERS OF SIENA. Workers in Graffito. By R. H. HOBART CUST, M.A. PETER VISCHER. Bronze Founder. By CECIL HEADLAM, B.A. THE IVORY WORKERS OF THE MIDDLE AGES. By A. M. CUST. Others to follow. -------------- LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: STEIN PHOTO.] [FROM A DRAWING IN POSSESSION OF T. A. STEIN, NÜRNBERG 1. PORTRAIT OF PETER VISCHER] PETER VISCHER by CECIL HEADLAM, B.A. Formerly Demy of Magdalen College, Oxford; Author of “The Story of Nuremberg,” etc. [Illustration: Publisher’s Logo] London George Bell and Sons 1901 Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham and Co. Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE