An account of the German morality-play, entitled Depositio cornuti typographici, as performed in the 17th and 18th centuries.
With a rhymical translation of the German version of 1648.
By William Blades, typographer. To which is added a literal reprint of the unique original version, written partly in Plaat-deutsch by Paul de Vise, and printed in 1621.

Description

Main Author

Blades, William, 1824-1890

Language(s)

English

Published

London, Trübner, 1885.

Subjects

Depositio cornuti typographici.
Printing > Printing / Germany > Printing / Germany / History.
Presentation copies.
Authors' presentation inscriptions.
Untrimmed edges.
History

Note

Initials, head and tail peices; frontispiece from Gessner's Buchdruckerkunst (1743); six facsimile title-pages.

Physical Description

113 p. incl. facsims. front., illus. 24 x 18 cm.

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