1581: Ralph Newbery

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Source:

Title: ‘The doome warning all men to the judgemente wherein are contayned for the most parte all the straunge prodigies hapned in the worlde, with divers secrete figures of revelations tending to mannes stayed conversion towardes God.’
Author: Konrad Lykosthenes and Stephen Batman
Publisher: -
Printer: Ralph Newbery, assigned by Henry Bynneman
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: London
Year: 1581
Links: [Scan], [USTC], [ProQuest], [English short title catalogue].

Comments:

The scans of the illustrations are from the second edition. Not sure if the first edition includes this image too?

Nigel Roche (2000, page 41): ‘A laterally-reversed copy is seen in S. Bateman, Doome warning all men to the judgemente, printed in London by R. Newbery in 1581.’

Technique:

Woodcut.

Publications

Falconer Madan (1895) ‘Early representations of the printing-Press with especial reference to that by Stradanus.’, Bibliographica. Volume 1, page 499-502. (Illustration 22*)

Ronald B. McKerrow (1928) An introduction to bibliography for literary students. London: Oxford University Press. [Scan]. Page 47.

Nigel Roche (2000) The iconography of the printing office to 1700. Unpublished MA thesis. Library and Information Studies, University College London. (Illustration #L2).