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1555 · [Hans Gegler] · 1 picture

A 1555 German broadside-style songbook of two secular songs, printed in black-letter type with a woodcut title page, probably issued by the printer Hans Gegler for popular street and household singing. The title page shows two full-length woodcut figures in narrow framed panels: a bearded man in a long coat holding a bow and a cloaked soldier in armour carrying a spear beside a banner-like shield. A designer might take from it the compact framed-panel layout, the bold blackletter lettering set against the aged paper, and the stiff, simple outlines of Renaissance woodcut costume figures.

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