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Schorr, Nikolaus · 1618 · bey Abraham Weerlin · 1 picture

A 1618 German broadside ballad printed in Bern by Abraham Weerlin and written by Nikolaus Schorr, sold as a cheap song sheet for ordinary readers. Its woodcut shows two bears facing each other beside a standing figure with a staff, under a large black-letter headline, so a designer could borrow its dense blackletter typography and the bold, blocky contrast of a bear-and-figure scene.

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