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Stumpf, Johannes, 1500-1576?, Vadianus, Joachim, 1484-1551, Vogtherr, Heinrich, 1490-1556 · 1548 · Getruckt Zürych in der Eydgnoschafft : Bey Christoffel Froschouer · 50 pictures

A 1548 Swiss chronicle by Johannes Stumpf, with commentary by Joachim Vadianus and woodcuts by Heinrich Vogtherr, printed in Zurich by Christoffel Froschouer for a readership interested in Swiss, German and French history. The pages are dense blocks of black-letter German text set around small framed woodcut scenes of battles, rulers and portrait busts, and a designer could take from them the compact layout of text beside images and the hatched, angular line of sixteenth-century woodcut.

Switzerland -- History -- Early works to 1800 · Germany -- History -- Early works to 1800 · France -- History -- Early works to 1800

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