6. This is from an Augsburg book. "Speculum Humanæ Vitæ," written by a
Spanish bishop, which was a great favourite in the Middle Ages. It
gives the advantages and disadvantages of all conditions of life. This
block contains a genealogical tree of the Hapsburg family, and is an
exceedingly beautiful piece of ornamental design, very well cut.
7. From the same book; representing not the "Five Alls," with which
you are familiar, but the "Four Alls;" the gentleman, the merchant,
the nobleman, and the poor man, who is the support of the whole lot,
with his toes coming through his shoes. This is a fine specimen of
printing of Gunther Zainer. The initial letters are very handsome in
all these Augsburg books.
8. There is a picture of the Unjust Lawyer, from the same book, taking
money from both sides. The date of this book is about 1475.
9. From "Æsop's Fables," a reproduction of the "Ulm Æsop," by Antony
Sorg, of Augsburg (but the pictures are printed from the same blocks),
the "Fly on the Wheel," and the "Jackdaw and Peacock." These designs
for the Æsop pictures went all through the Middle Ages, with very
little alteration.