Early English poetry, ballads, and popular literature of the Middle Ages ; . No English edition earlier than the present, is, Ibelieve, known to exist, but it was certainly piintedbefore 1600, and most of the cuts in the present copyare old, some of them exhibiting the worm-holes of theoriginal blocks. The tale is mentioned by HenryCrope in Vertves Commomvealth, or the Highioay to NOTICES OF POPULAR HISTORIES. 41 Honour, 4to. 1602; and many years before, MeredithHanmer, in the epistle dedicatory to his translationof Eusebius, 1577, speaks of the stories of KingArthur, the monstrous fables of G
Early English poetry, ballads, and popular literature of the Middle Ages ; . No English edition earlier than the present, is, Ibelieve, known to exist, but it was certainly piintedbefore 1600, and most of the cuts in the present copyare old, some of them exhibiting the worm-holes of theoriginal blocks. The tale is mentioned by HenryCrope in Vertves Commomvealth, or the Highioay to NOTICES OF POPULAR HISTORIES. 41 Honour, 4to. 1602; and many years before, MeredithHanmer, in the epistle dedicatory to his translationof Eusebius, 1577, speaks of the stories of KingArthur, the monstrous fables of Garagantua, the Hun-dred Merry Tales, Skoggan, Fortunatus, with manyother infortunate treatises. The History of Fortunatuswas entered on June 22nd, 1615, with other copies, toMr. Field. Taylor, the water-poet, in his Workes,1630, iii, 99, says of a traveller in Germany, he musthave Fortunatus or a prince his purse, that must be,like a drunkards dagger, ever drawne, to pay bounti-fully for such wash and graines as his valiant stomackehath overcome, conquered, and The above cut is taken from p. 155, and representsAndolocia in prison, seated in a pair of stocks, and theEarl Theodorus strangling him. Mr, Fairholt haskindly furnished me with the following remarks on 42 NOTICES OF POPULAR IIISTUKIES. the cuts ill this volume:— The cuts in the History ofFortunatus, 1682, are certainly not the work of Englishartists, and are very much older than that date. Itwas not at all unusual for English publishers of popularstories to obtain their illustrations abroad; and as thiswork is stated in the title-page to be first penned inthe Dutch tongue, it is by no means improbable thatthe cuts were obtained in Holland or Germany, wherethe art of book illustration principally flourished. Thecuts, however, are not uniformly good, nor are theyall by the same hand. I should be inclined to thinkthat the publisher obtained as many as he could, andthen had the others copied by an inferior hand
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