Witches, demons, and wondrous creatures appear in a new book from the British Library,Graven Images: The Art of the Woodcut.
Whether printed in former Scripture , pasted on public walls , or hawked on street corners , wood engraving were some of the earliest forms of mass communication . They seem in Europe around 1400 ( having been used in Japan and China far in the first place ) , where they were used to spread religious imagery , political propaganda , crucial news , and lewd tittle-tattle . A raw book from the British Library , Graven paradigm : The Art of the Woodcut , collects some of the strangest and most amusive woodcuts in the library ’s collection , featuring astounding paradigm of wondrous events , terrible law-breaking , and exotic creature both real and ideate . The text , by London writer and editor program Jon Crabb , provides an insightful guide to the turbulence portray on the pages , whether it ’s the political upheaval of Henry VIII ’s break from the Catholic Pope in 1534 or the " witch fad " of the 16th and seventeenth centuries .
The Joviall Crew , or , the Devill turn’d Ranter : being a character of the roaring Ranters of these times , represented in a comedie(1651 )
One of the bizarre beasts of land and sea collected by Ambroise Paré .
weight down the old , devilish serpent with the Divine Word , 1525 , fromBeschwerung der alten , Teüfelischen Schlangen mit dem Götlichen wort .
A bizarre apparition from Beschwerung der alten , Teüfelischen Schlangen mit dem Götlichen wort .
A declaration of a strange and wonderfull lusus naturae bear in Kirkham parish in Lancashire ( 1646 ) .
representation of the " roundhead " ( Parliamentarians ) and other case of drumhead in the English Civil War .
A dependable recounting of the trauels of M. Bush , a gentleman : who with his owne handes without any other humanity helpe made a Pynace , in which hee past by ayre , farming , and water system : From Lamborne , a situation in Barkshire to the Custome - house Key inLondon(1608 ) . This wood block depicts how the now - blank out William Bush guide cables between edifice , on which to " pilot " a minor boat . His clowning make a sensation .
The complaint of M. Tenter - hooke the Proiector , and Sir Thomas Dodger the Patentee1641 . A foreign satire having to do with the fact that patent on certain good had of late terminate .
The godly terminal , and wofull lamentation of one Iohn Stevens , a youth , that was hang’d , drawne , and billet for high - treason , at Salisbury in Wilshire , vpon Thursday being the seuenth day of March last 1632 . With the set vp of his quarters on the citygates(1633 ) .
