"Some of the great images of world art began as prints, perhaps using only a block of wood and a carving tool." -- Nancy Berkoff, "Art of Print At Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach" Rare Books contributed images from five of its books...
“The Queene of Scotland is your prisoner, let her be honorably entreated, but yet surely guarded.” – William Parry A true and plaine declaration of the horrible… At London by C. Barker Cum priuilegio, 1585 First edition, second issue A contemporary report of William Parry’s plot to assassinate Queen...
The first edition of this bull was printed by Melchior Lotter in 1522. Martin Luther (1483-1546) was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church on January 3, 1521. On April 15, Maundy Thursday, Pope Leo X published the bull “Consueverunt Romani Pontifices,” in which Luther’s name...
“Ne arbitremini quod ego uenetim ut mitterem super terram pacem; non ueni ut mitterem pacem, sed gladium (“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.)” — Matthew 10:34...