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The invention of printing : a collection of facts and opinions descriptive of early prints and playing cards, the block-books of the fifteenth century, the legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and the work of John Gutenberg and his associates (1878)

De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914 · New York : F. Hart · leaf 244

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your friends. Another devil, pointingto the house, calls out with grim irony—Intende thesauro—pay attention to your treasures. This illustration is followedby another in which a ministering angel exhorts the dyingman to discard the devils advice, and not leave his propertyto his relatives, but to… … Fac-simile of a Page of the Ars Moriendi.Engraving in the original print is 6% by %% American inches. [From Heineken.] 238 BLOCK-BOOKS WITH TEXT. baffled devils make some frightful contortions and then depart.It is not a pleasant book. But the hideousness of the devilsin the illustrations is not so…

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