A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . hich the text of Sir Theurdank is printed is called Fractur by German printers. The first work, says Breitkopf, which afforded an example of aperfectly-shaped Fractw for printing, was unquestionably the Theurdank, printed at Nurem-berg, 1517.—Ueber Bibliograpliie und Bibhophile, S. 8. 1793.—Neudorffer, a contemporary,who lived at Nuremberg at the time when Sir Theui-dank was first published, says that thespecimens for the types were written by Vincent Rockner, the emperors court-secretary.—Von Murr, Joiunal, 2er Theil, S. 159 ; and Lic
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . hich the text of Sir Theurdank is printed is called Fractur by German printers. The first work, says Breitkopf, which afforded an example of aperfectly-shaped Fractw for printing, was unquestionably the Theurdank, printed at Nurem-berg, 1517.—Ueber Bibliograpliie und Bibhophile, S. 8. 1793.—Neudorffer, a contemporary,who lived at Nuremberg at the time when Sir Theui-dank was first published, says that thespecimens for the types were written by Vincent Rockner, the emperors court-secretary.—Von Murr, Joiunal, 2er Theil, S. 159 ; and Lichtenberger, Initia Typographica, p. 194. 284; WOOD ENGEAVING horseback, Theurdanks squire, Ernhokl. The title of the chapter, orfyiite, to which this cut is prefixed is to the following effect: HowFiirwittig led Sir Theurdank into a perilous encounter with a subject of the thirteenth chapter is his perilous encounter witha stag, and in the fifteenth we are entertained with the narration of oneof his adventures when hunting the The opposite cut is a reduced copy of No. Ill in the Adventuresof Sir Theurdank. The title of the chapter to which this cut is prefixedis : How Unfalo [one of Theurdanks tempters] was hung. A monkat the foot of the gallows appears to pray for the culprit just turned off;while Ernold seems to be explaining to a group of spectators to the leftthe reason of the execution. The cut illustrative of the 110th chapterrepresents the beheading of Fiirwittig; and in the 112th, Neydelhart,the basest of Theurdanks enemies, is seen receiving the reward of hisperfidy by being throAvn into a moat. The two original cuts which havebeen selected as specimens of the wood engravings in the Adventures ofSir Theurdank, though not the best, are perhaps, in point of design andexecution, rather superior to two-thirds of those contained in the work. IN THE TIME OF ALBEET DUEEE. 285 The copies, tliougb less in size, afford a tolerably correct idea of the
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