Author(s): Unknown Author
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 166
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Language: English
Date Published: 2018-02-27
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 11mm
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Illustrations: 169 Illustrations; Illustrations, black and white

Excerpt from A Smaller Biblia Pauperum, Conteynynge Thyrtie and Eyghte Wodecuttes Illustratynge the Lyfe, Parablis, and Miraclis Off Oure Blessid Lorde and Savioure Jhesus Crist: With the Propre Descrypciouns Theroff Extracted From the Originall Texte Off Iohn Wiclif Book, as Victor Hugo obferved, coming into exifience at the moment when the great age of the building of Churches was pafiing away, (0 that, in his forcible language, it was faid, This will kill that - the Book will kill the Church; or, as we might, in a kindlier fpirit, exprefs it, the Church has given birth to the Book. In like manner thefe Antique Woodcuts, dating only féven years before the firf't appearance of Caxtonls firpc printed Englilh Book, are a fitting memorial of the epoch, commemorated by the Caxton Celebration, when the Bible of the Poor for the hit time appeared in the guife of piftures, before it palled into cheap, multifarious, illimitable Bibles, which lhould permeate through all claffes far more effectually than any pictorial reprefentations. It is exactly the point of meeting, the crofiing, as it were, of the two arts - the image pafiing into fubltance the later education of thought and fpirit taking the place of the earlier education of fenfe and figure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.