Eine schöne Historie von dem Zauberer Virgilius, seinen Leben und Tod und den wunderbaren Dingen, die er durch Negromantie und mit Hilfe des Teufels vollbrachte : sehr lustig und vergnüglich zu lesen
A nineteenth-century German chapbook retelling the legend of the magician Virgil, printed by H. L. Brönner in 1847 and edited by Karl Simrock and Alexander Stix for a general readership of lively reading. The pictures are small black-and-white woodcut-style engravings set above German text, showing dramatic scenes with tall figures in period costume, architecture, and sky. A designer might take from them the expressive line work, dense hatched shading, and the staged, narrative compositions typical of popular German book illustration of the period.
