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Book/Printed Material Biblia pauperum, conteynynge thirty and eight wodecuttes, illustrating the liif, parablis, and miraclis offe oure blessid Lord and Saviour Jhesus Christ, with the proper descrypciouns

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Title

  • Biblia pauperum, conteynynge thirty and eight wodecuttes, illustrating the liif, parablis, and miraclis offe oure blessid Lord and Saviour Jhesus Christ, with the proper descrypciouns

Names

  • Wycliffe, John, -1384
  • Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492
  • Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, 1815-1881
  • Unwin Brothers (Firm)
  • Bible Collection (Library of Congress)
  • John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • New York, A.C. Armstrong & son; [etc., etc.] 1885.

Headings

  • -  Bible--Picture Bibles

Notes

  • -  "This edition consists of three hundred and seventy-five copies, printed for America by Unwin Brothers, of London, England."
  • -  LC copy is No. 65.
  • -  "The borders and ornaments which embellish the letterpress pages are exact fac-similes of those used in a book of hours, now in the Lambeth palace library, printed by T. Kerver, in Paris, 1525."--Note by the printers, l. 5.
  • -  "The originals...which have been used for the reductions which illustrate this volume [were exhibited, together with a volume of impressions, at the Caxton celebration held in London in 1877]...This...series of original blocks were purchased about sixty years since at Nuremburg...They cannot be recognized as belonging to any printed book, and the artist's mark, which appears on the 37th plate, is unknown to any bibliographer...It is...probable that the blocks were thrown aside and never used...till a lapse of nearly four centuries...These blocks were used in the production of 'A new Biblia pauperum' ...of which 275 copies were issued [in 1877]"--Note by the printers.
  • -  The London edition of the present work was issued under title "A smaller Biblia pauperum ...", 1884.
  • -  LAC ecr 2018-11-26 update (3 cards)

Medium

  • 3 p.l., v-lxxxij numb. l. incl. 38 pl. 21 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BS135.5 1885
  • BS135.5 1885 Copy 2 LC has copy no. 41.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 10019006

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Wycliffe, John, -1384, William Caxton, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Unwin Brothers, Bible Collection, and John Davis Batchelder Collection. Biblia pauperum, conteynynge thirty and eight wodecuttes, illustrating the liif, parablis, and miraclis offe oure blessid Lord and Saviour Jhesus Christ, with the proper descrypciouns. [New York, A.C. Armstrong & son; etc., et, 1885] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/10019006/.

APA citation style:

Wycliffe, J., Caxton, W., Stanley, A. P., Unwin Brothers, Bible Collection & John Davis Batchelder Collection. (1885) Biblia pauperum, conteynynge thirty and eight wodecuttes, illustrating the liif, parablis, and miraclis offe oure blessid Lord and Saviour Jhesus Christ, with the proper descrypciouns. [New York, A.C. Armstrong & son; etc., et] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/10019006/.

MLA citation style:

Wycliffe, John, -1384, et al. Biblia pauperum, conteynynge thirty and eight wodecuttes, illustrating the liif, parablis, and miraclis offe oure blessid Lord and Saviour Jhesus Christ, with the proper descrypciouns. [New York, A.C. Armstrong & son; etc., et, 1885] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/10019006/>.