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A picture gallery of catholic abuses

OBERMAYR (= Joseph RICHTER).
Bildergalerie katholischer Misbräuche.

With full-page engraved frontispiece, 20 full-page engraved plates, engraved vignette on title, 3 engravings in text, woodcut headpieces and initials.

With full-page engraved frontispiece, 20 full-page engraved plates, engraved vignette on title, 3 engravings in text, woodcut headpieces and initials.

With full-page engraved frontispiece, 20 full-page engraved plates, engraved vignette on title, 3 engravings in text, woodcut headpieces and initials.

With full-page engraved frontispiece, 20 full-page engraved plates, engraved vignette on title, 3 engravings in text, woodcut headpieces and initials.

With full-page engraved frontispiece, 20 full-page engraved plates, engraved vignette on title, 3 engravings in text, woodcut headpieces and initials.



Frankfurt & Leipzig [i.e. Wien, Kurzböck], 1784. 8vo. Contemporary marbled boards with traces of a pasted label on front cover, yellow painted edges. With full-page engraved frontispiece, 20 full-page engraved plates, engraved vignette on title, 3 engravings in text, woodcut headpieces and initials. (4), 230, (2) pp.

First edition of this satirical picture gallery of catholic abuses, in which the Austrian author Joseph Richter (1749-1813). who a.o. used the pseudonyms Obermayr and Pater Hilarion, depicts the religious customs of the day. With the use of copperplate engravings, Richter denounces what is problematic, contradictory, or lacking in these customs, and by so doing, he provides insight into the reformist impulses of the Josephine Enlightenment. Richter supports these reforms, and also characterizes customs as an evolutionary element; customs must continuously develop and accommodate themselves to changing religious and spiritual conditions.

Good copy.- (Few minor defects).
Holzmann, Pseud. Lex., p. 200; Hayn & Gotendorf V, p. 442 ('gesucht and selten'); Hirschberg 410; Wernigg 3877.

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Catholicism  Engravings  German  Religion 

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