About this book:

Title: [Thirty-eight woodcuts illustrating the life of Christ].
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Alternative Title: Biblia pauperum
Publisher: [London,
Date: ca. 1815]
Physical Description: [38] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 29 cm.
Language: enm
Notes: Title from bookseller's description.
Presumably printed in London; some leaves bear a watermark date of 1815.
Printed in red below each plate is a related selection from John Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament.
Binding: 19th-century half black morocco and cloth; bookseller's description pasted to first front fly leaf.
Provenance: On inside of front cover, armorial bookplate of Frederick Collins Wilson, covered by another later armorial bookplate with initials "HWL" and "KEL" dated 1917; purchased from Bernard Quaritch, December 2005.
References: J. Feather, "Thirty-Eight Old Woodcuts: Some Notes on an Early 19th-Century Block-Book", In The Book Collector, v. 26:3 (1977), p. 371-379.
J. Buchanan-Brown, "A Forged Series of Woodcuts?", In The Library, 5th ser., v. 29 (1974), p. 165-196.
A. M. Hind, An Introduction to a History of Woodcut (1935), v. 1, p. 248-249.
W. L. Schreiber, Handbuch (1926-1930), v. 6, p. 87.
Contributor: Wycliffe, John, d. 1384.
Wilson, Frederick Collins, former owner.
Subject: Block books.
Wood-engraving -- 15th century.