Anonymous

“ Several of the Papal Pageants for the Populace and the Monkish Mysteries performed as Dramas at Chester, Coventry, Newcastle, and in other parts of England, are almost verbatim representations of the stories. Many valuable Pictures by the best masters—Prints by the early Engravers, and particularly of the Italian and German Schools—Woodcuts in early black letter and block books—and Illuminations of missals and monastic MSS.—receive immediate elucidation on reference to the Apocryphal New Testament, and are without explanation from any other source. ”

“ They naturally assume the title of the Apocryphal New Testament; and he who possesses this and the New Testament, has, in the two volumes, a collection of all the Historical Records relative to Christ and his Apostles, now in existence, and considered sacred by Christians during the first four centuries after his birth. ”

“ JUST PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM HONE, 45, Ludgate-Hill.
Price Two Shillings.
THE PREROGATIVES OF A QUEEN CONSORT OF ENGLAND; particularly of her ability to make and receive Gifts, to sue and be sued, and to hold Courts without the King; of its being Treason to plot against her Life; of the modes of trying her for Offences; and of her ancient Revenue of Queen-Gold.
“The King’s wife is participant of many Prerogatives above other Women.”—Finch.
Handsomely engraved, in one Print, from authentic Likenesses obtained by William Hone from Spain, for the gratification of the British People. ”