Marburg: Christian Egenolff, 1542.
Extraordinary court report of the escalating dispute between Heinrich II of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and the citizens of the Lower Saxony town of Goslar. It all started when Goslar municipal delegate to the 1530 Imperial Diet of Augsburg, Konrad Dellinghausen, failed to come to an agreement with Heinrich.....
Tokyo: Yamamura Kinzaburo, Meiji 13-8 [August] 1880.
Sensational series of three narrative color woodblock prints, which together illustrate one of the most notorious crimes in Meiji-era Japan, published a few weeks after the incident. The text cartouche at the head of the leftmost sheet explains the gruesome scene:
A young.....
London: J. Roberts, 1734.
Only Edition. Robert Walpole, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and most influential politician in Great Britain, had come about his power by avoiding foreign wars, and had elevated his popularity (at least among the landed gentry) by reducing the land tax from £4 to £1 over.....
Lisbon: 1765.
Chapbook report of the trial and sentencing of one Jacintho Yorc for the "tyrannical" murder of his young wife, Luciana Kin, in Transylvania in July of 1765. Much of the reportage centers around the sensationally grisly torture and execution of Yorc, who was burned with red-hot irons, his.....