Der Endkrist, or the Antichrist. This book seems to have been written to warn men against the snares of heresy. Two distinct editions are known; each was printed from a different suite of blocks and by a different printer. The copy about to be described has thirty-eight leaves, twenty-six of which are devoted to the life of Antichrist, and eleven to a separate treatise known as the _Fifteen Signs_, which was bound up with the _Antichrist_, and of which it seems to be the proper sequel. The book is printed on one side of the leaf, in brown ink, and the illustrations face each other. The text begins with the words, “Here beginneth of Antichrist, taken and drawn out of many books, how and of whom he [p231] shall be born.” After a half-page wood-cut, which represents with needless grossness the birth of Antichrist, follow other engravings illustrating the more notable events of his life.[120] The fac-simile on the following page gives a correct notion of the lawlessness of the designs[121] of the book. It is obvious that they were not made by the artist who drew the illustrations for the _Bible of the Poor_ or for the _Canticles_. The text which explains the wood-cuts is in the German language, but it is in a very careless form of German writing. [p233] [Illustration: Fac-simile, reduced, of a Page of the Antichrist. [From Heineken.]] The thirty-eight leaves of one edition are made up in one section. This bungling method of making up a book is sufficient evidence that the printer or engraver who placed these pages together had no education in practical book-making. But the bad method shown in the plan does not prove that the book is of great age. The copy under notice contains, in the German language, the imprint of _Junghannis, priffmaler_, or painter of cards, Nuremberg, 1472. Whether this Junghannis was the designer, printer or engraver is not known. HOW TO REMEMBER THE EVANGELISTS. This block-book[122] was, no doubt, intended for men, but a modern observer would say that it had been made for children. The time-honored method, still used for the child’s alphabet, A was an apple, is the method of the _Ars Memorandi_. Compared with the block-books previously noticed, it is a book of high merit. It is a thin folio of thirty pages, fifteen of which contain a text of very large, clumsily drawn and compactly arranged letters within a rule-bordered frame; the remaining fifteen pages have full-page illustrations. The edition from which the annexed illustration was copied is in brown ink. [Illustration: Fac-simile of a Page of the Ars Memorandi. Engraving in the original print is 6-3/4 by 9-1/4 American inches. [From Heineken.]]