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Sachs, Hans, Ammann, Jost / The printing arts: selected from a detailed description of all guilds
(1968)

Introduction 

INTRODUCTION
Jost Ammann's "Detailed Description
of All Guilds," published in i568 by
renowned Frankfort publisher Sigmund
Feyerabend, depicts "all arts, crafts and
trades from the highest to the lowest."
The book is a collection of one hundred
and fourteen woodcuts with rhymes by
Hans Sachs and presents an excellent in-
troduction to many old crafts. The pic-
ture of the woodcutter is the oldest des-
cription of its kind, and it is possible that
the cut of the draughtsman is Ammann
himself. All in all, these cuts present us a
wealth of detail of the sixteenth century.
The cuts of Ammann's that are related
to the printing crafts appear on the fol-
lowing pages, along with English verses.
Robert Shaftoe
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