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Some German woodcuts of the fifteenth century

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Description: Thirty-five reproductions from printed books in the library of William Morris, preceded by extracts from his article "On the artistic qualities of the woodcut books of Ulm and Augsburg in the fifteenth century," and followed by a list of the principal books with woodcuts in his library
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: Finished on the 15th day of December, 1897.
Call number: 108446
Dimensions: 30 cm (4to)
Associated people: Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, (1867-1962,); Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, (1867-1962,); Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (1840-1922,); Crocker, Templeton, (1884-1948,); Berger, Sanford,

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Contains 50 novelle, each dedicated to a different person. For list of the dedicatees, see Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

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Image of a parade celebration in Baltimore, Maryland, for the passing of the Fifteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution (allowing African American men the right to vote) on May 19, 1870, surrounded by vignettes and portraits with captions; African American men, women, and children are portrayed in various daily activities as equals to others, including as workers, soldiers, religious figures, politicians, married couples, educators, and voters; portraits of President Ulysses S. Grant, Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, Hiram Rhodes Revels, Vice President Schuyler Colfax, John Brown, and Abraham Lincoln surround center image along with quotes from the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.

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Album of woodcut comic valentines

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Album's spine is deteriorating. Many of the woodcuts are printed by the American Valentine Co. and were created during the American Civil War. Pages of the back of the album are in German and are unrelated to valentines.

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Alchemical, medical and technical compilation: manuscript, 15th-16th centuries

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Collection of alchemical, medical and technical works, consisting of parts of several manuscripts of separate origin but by now impossible to distinguish precisely one from the other, brought together in the late fifteenth century.

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The Century for xmas

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Image of an advertisement for The Century Magazine 1895 Christmas issue featuring a robed Santa Claus bringing in a steaming Christmas pudding preceded by a boy and a girl carrying lit candles in candlesticks.

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New York City - Demonstration of the colored inhabitants of New York in honor of the adoption of the fifteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States - Friday April 8, 1870

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Image of bands, horses, and groups of people parading down a street in New York in a demonstration in honor of the passage of the fifteenth amendment to the United States Constitution, which granted the right to vote to African American men in the United States; buildings along street in background.

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Some German woodcuts of the fifteenth century

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