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Rh 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. The following synopsis of the work is condensed from the translation of the text of the book, as given by Sotheby in his Principia Typographica, vol., pp. 38-45: The fac-simile on the following page gives a correct notion of the lawlessness of the designs 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.