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Der edelstein; lichtdrucknachbildung der undatierten ausgabe im besitze der Kgl. bibliothek zu Berlin

Boner, Ulrich, 14th cent, Kristeller, Paul, 1863-1931, Preussische Staatsbibliothek, Herzog August Bibliothek · 1908 · Berlin, B. Cassirer · 38 pictures

Der Edelstein is a 1908 facsimile by Berlin publisher B. Cassirer, reproducing an undated fifteenth-century German edition of Ulrich Boner's fable collection, a moral verse book for a general readership. Its woodcut panels show a seated figure in a long robe beside a scene, with a small standing figure at left, a framed narrative at right, and a fable-like exchange of animals and people; a designer could borrow the simple block-cut line, the boxed panel layout, and the plain figure poses.

Wood-engraving · Incunabula · Fables

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