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Muheim, Hieronymus · 1674 · [Georg Sonnleitner?] · 1 picture

A 1674 German chapbook by Hieronymus Muheim telling the legend and history of William Tell and the Swiss oath confederation, with the Battle against Duke Charles of Burgundy and two new songs, printed in Germany for popular readers. The title page carries a framed woodcut of an armed man with a crossbow and a figure in a feathered hat beside a tree, set under a bold black-letter title block. A designer could take from it the dense black-letter typography, the boxed woodcut inset, and the tight hierarchy of centred lines above and below the picture.

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