An account of the German morality-play, entitled Depositio cornuti typographici, as performed in the 17th and 18th centuries
Subtitle: with a rhymical translation of the German version of 1648
By: by William Blades, typographer ... ; to which is added a literal reprint of the unique original version, written partly in Plaat-deutsch by Paul de Vise, and printed in 1621.
Contributors: Rist, Johann, 1607-1667.
Publisher: Trübner
Published: 1885
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
Subjects: Depositio cornuti typographici.; Printing -- Germany -- History.; Printers -- Germany -- History.
Notes: Contains a translation of the version by Johann Rist.

Initials, head and tail peices; frontispiece from Gessner's Buchdruckerkunst (1743); six facsimile title-pages; advertisement on p. [3] at end.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The social status of German printers in olden times; title: The printers' Depositio described; title: John Rist's version; title: The Depositio at the universities; title: Various ceremonies similar to the Depositio; title: Origin, growth, decadence and extinction ot the Depositio; title: Bibliography; title: Depositio typographi anglicani; title: Appendix; title: Index.