Der alt Gryss : ein hüpsch Lied der alt Gryss genant gar mengem Kriegsmann wol bekant, darby ich niemant schmäch noch schend, Gott alle Ding zum besten wendt
A 1564 German broadside song sheet printed in Bern by Sigfrid Apiario, a popular ballad about an old soldier named Gryss, its title set in heavy black letter above a central woodcut. The woodcut shows two bearded men in period dress face to face, one gesturing toward the other, framed by dense blackletter verse. A designer might take the bold, compact woodcut figures and the stacked black-letter typography as a model for lively, sharply cut graphic emblems.
