The Mirror of Salvation: An Edition of British Library Blockbook G. 11784

by John W. Smeltz

This blockbook is the key to understanding the "religious climate" of the Middle Ages. It was the first and only edition of its kind of the Mirror of Salvation, among the most significant and influential blockbooks of the fifteenth century. This edition reprints all 58 woodcuts, each with two illustrations, translates into modern English the text of the entire blockbook, and provides detailed explanations of the woodcuts and the text. No other edition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820703230
• ISBN13: 9780820703237
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Duquesne
• Length: 202 Pages