Forty-four figures of hands, with a titlepage and page of text and a printed wrapper. Early issues are printed on one side of the paper only, later on both. The printer appears to have been Jorg Schaff, of Augsburg, and the date of issue about 1475. The date 1448 found in the book is that of composition, and it probably circulated in manuscript for many years before being printed. _MIRABILIA ROMAE_ A German guide-book for visitors to Rome. Ninety-two leaves, printed with black ink on both sides of the leaf, with only a few illustrations. It was perhaps first published to meet the rush of German pilgrims to Rome at the Jubilee of Pope Sixtus IV, 1475. The blocks were probably cut in Germany, and the printing done at Rome. Some of the ornaments are said to have been used in type-printed editions by Stephan Plannck. This suggests that the book may have been published by his predecessor, Ulrich Han. * * * * * In addition to these block-books of Low Country and German origin, mention must also be made of a very curious Italian one, a _Passio domini nostri Jesu Christi_, fully described by the Prince d'Essling. The copy of this at Berlin contains eighteen leaves, and was probably executed at Venice about the middle of the fifteenth century. Some of the blocks were subsequently used (after a scroll at the foot had been cut off) for an edition of the _Devote Meditatione sopra la Passione del Nostro Signore_ (attributed to S. Bonaventura), published at Venice in 1487 by Jeronimo di Sancti e Cornelio suo Compagno, and a page from this is reproduced as a frontispiece to our chapter on Italian Illustrated Books. Mention has already been made of the _Opera nova contemplativa_, an adaptation of the _Biblia Pauperum_, printed as a block-book at Venice about 1530. The only extant French block-book, if it can be called one, is that of the "Nine Worthies" (_Les Neuf Preux_). This consists of three sheets, the first showing three heathen worthies--Hector, Alexander, and Julius Caesar; the second, three from the Old Testament--Joshua, David, and Judas Maccabaeus; the third, three from medieval romance--Arthur, Charlemagne, and Godfrey of Boulogne. Under each picture are six lines of verse. These three triple woodcuts, with the woodcut text, are assigned to about 1455. No English block-book has yet been discovered, nor is it in the least likely that one ever existed, though there are a few single woodcuts. * * * * *