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the three published together for smaller projects they relied on themselves. He and his fellow printers Johann Froben and
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an alliance of three printers in which most of the costs for printing books was divided between either two or three printers. Larger projects like the collected works of
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in his neighborhood. He also was the father of a daughter that died before her third birthday. He was buried in the
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Barbara Ortenberg (a daughter of a politician of Basel) in 1483 and was the father of Basilius Amerbach ("the Elder", 1488–1535) and
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twice a year, often accompanied by other printers of Basel. Many of his clients were of a christian religious background and he mainly printed
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