. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. FROM THE KAPPKESENTAZIONE UUNO MIRACOLO DEL CORPO DI GESU, This, of course, is a mere fiction, but it serves the womanin good stead ; for when the Jew is discovered by the un-quenchable flow of blood from the wafer he maltreats, heis promptly burnt, while the Judge is warned by a specialrevelation to spare the life of his accomplice, whose guiltmight easily be represented as the greater of the edition of the play of * S. Cecilia, probably printed 30 OLD PICTURE BOOKS about 1560, affords a good example of the gradual additi
. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. FROM THE KAPPKESENTAZIONE UUNO MIRACOLO DEL CORPO DI GESU, This, of course, is a mere fiction, but it serves the womanin good stead ; for when the Jew is discovered by the un-quenchable flow of blood from the wafer he maltreats, heis promptly burnt, while the Judge is warned by a specialrevelation to spare the life of his accomplice, whose guiltmight easily be represented as the greater of the edition of the play of * S. Cecilia, probably printed 30 OLD PICTURE BOOKS about 1560, affords a good example of the gradual additionof cuts in later reprints. This little tract of about twentypages has no fewer than eighteen pictures in it, three ofwhich, however, are only repetitions of one of the mostfamiliar cuts in the whole series of Rappresentazioni—aChristian virgin dragged before a king ; while three otherwell-worn cuts are each repeated twice, so that the number. FROM THE KAl1RESENTAZIONE DI S. CECILIA, of blocks used was only thirteen, though these yieldedeighteen impressions. As might be expected, the littlepictures are often dragged in with very little appropriate-ness. Thus, the Roman soldiers sent to arrest Ceciliagave the publisher ar excuse to show a party of knightsriding in the country, and so on. On the other hand,the pleasant picture of a disputation here shown, though FLORENTINE RAPPRESENTAZIONI .-?! undoubtedly executed in the first instance for some otherwork, probably gives us a very correct representation ofthe costume and grouping of the actors. One point in the text of the S. Cecilia, deserves noting.
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