Sheet Of Cord, Spiritual Alarm Clock, Valladolid, Circa 1800

Description: PLEA DE CORDEL, CURIOUS ROMANCE IN WHICH THE VOICES ARE DECLARED SO THE SINNER HAS TO WAKE UP, WHO BECAUSE OF HIS GREAT MISFORTUNE SLEEPS IN SINValladolid, Santaren printing house, ca. 1800.Two woodcuts. Two column text 2 P. numbered, measurements: 21 X 15, 5 cms.The cordel sheets were a composition created to be read aloud to a sometimes illiterate audience, they were often decorated with woodcuts or engravings and had striking titles to attract the public's attention. His price was cheap and affordable. The sheets were frequently reused and went from hand to hand. They narrated romances, popular, religious, political themes... Its name comes from the way of exposing the sheets in the sales stalls by hanging them from a cord. The form of sale was through the figure of a blind man or a traveling salesman. PLEA DE CORDEL, CURIOUS ROMANCE IN WHICH THE VOICES ARE DECLARED SO THE SINNER HAS TO WAKE UP, WHO BECAUSE OF HIS GREAT MISFORTUNE SLEEPS IN SIN Valladolid, Santaren printing house, ca. 1800. Two woodcuts. Two column text 2 P. numbered, measurements: 21 X 15, 5 cms. The cordel sheets were a composition created to be read aloud to a sometimes illiterate audience, they were often decorated with woodcuts or engravings and had striking titles to attract the public's attention. His price was cheap and affordable. The sheets were frequently reused and went from hand to hand. They narrated romances, popular, religious, political themes... Its name comes from the way of exposing the sheets in the sales stalls by hanging them from a cord. The form of sale was through the figure of a blind man or a

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