Biblia pauperum, conteynynge thirty and eight wodecuttes illustrating the liif, parablis, and miraclis offe oure blessid Lord & Saviour Jhesus Crist, with the proper descrypciouns therof extracted fro the originall texte offe Iohn Wiclif.. (1885)
Unwin Brothers (Firm), Wycliffe, John, d. 1384, Boosey, firm, booksellers, London. Collection of thirty-eight old wood cuts · New York: A. C. Armstrong & son · leaf 14
HAVE been requefted by Meflrs.Unwin to fay a few words byway of Preface to this intereftingwork, which confifting of the rudeattempts, at the beginning of theart of Printing, to diffeminate bypictures the truths fo foon to be diffufed far morewidely by typography, was fitly called the <c… … Book, as Victor Hugo obferved, coming into exiftenceat the moment when the great age of the building ofChurches was pafling away, fo that, in his forciblelanguage, it was {aid, <c This will kill that—the Bookwill kill the Church; or, as we might, in a kindlierfpirit, exprefs it, the Church has…
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