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Three woodcut scenes of a papermaker at a vat, a printer at a press, and a bookbinder at a bench, with German verse captions.

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German book-trade in the 16th century

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Jost Amman · Swiss, 1539-1591

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German book-trade in the 16th century, Jost Amman (1568), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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This woodcut shows three craftsmen in a sixteenth-century workshop, the papermaker, the printer and the bookbinder, each at work on a step of book production. German verse captions beneath each scene describe their trades.

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Date
1568
Medium
Print
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Wikimedia Commons
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Public domain