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Early Bible Illustrations

Categorie	Grafiek & Tekeningen
Boeknummer	#395172
Titel	Early Bible Illustrations: A Short Study Based on Some Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Printed Texts
Auteur	Strachan, James
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Cambridge University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2008
ISBN10	052110002X
ISBN13	9780521100021
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, illustrations in b/w, 8vo. Reprint of the 1957 edition.
Samenvatting	Mr Strachan was asked if he could identify or explain the illustrations in an edition of the English Great Bible of 1541. Some were simple, others quite baffling. He set out to discover their meaning and history, and succeeded in tracing their derivation. At each stage a possible influence or explanation pointed a stage farther back; in the end he found that he had to cover virtually the whole history of illustration in printed bibles during their first century. He has set down his findings in this study. There is a considerable detective interest; one sees how successive renderings of a subject produced strange garblings, until certain pictures became apparently meaningless. It is all quite easy to understand, now that Mr Strachan has explained it; but he was working backwards in time, and it was a feat of ingenuity and perseverance to have reached his conclusions. All the more so in that he had to survey the entire range of bible-printing in every important European country.
Pagina's	169
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 30,00

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