The Legendary History of the Cross A Series of Sixty-four Woodcuts from a Dutch Book Published by Veldener, A.D. 1483 is part of the Folklore catalogue. The record identifies Ashton, John, 1834-1911 [Editor], Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924 [Author of introduction, etc.], Caxton, William, 1422?-1492? [Contributor], Jacobus, de Voragine, 1229?-1298 [Contributor], Veldener, Johann, active 1473-1486 [Illustrator] as the credited author and preserves a link to the source edition.

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The extracted text contains approximately 20,765 words, corresponding to an estimated 91 minutes of reading, and is divided into 4 detectable text sections. These figures describe the downloaded text file rather than a printed pagination system.

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