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Graven images : the art of the woodcut
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Graven images : the art of the woodcut

by Jon Crabb

This volume examines sixteenth and seventeenth-century printed ballads and broadsides from the British Library's collections. It analyses woodcut illustrations and blackletter type through themes such as politics, crime, and popular culture in early modern Europe.

Accession 13571 ISBN 9780712356725 Publisher British Library
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