The second publication fresh from Prelo Prints’ press is based on Dracole Waida, a pamphlet first published in Nüremberg in 1488. The booklet presents Vlad III’s, Voivode of Wallachia, various crimes prior to his death, and was used as a propaganda instrument. The popularity of the work is proven by the numerous print runs up to the 16th century in various imperial German cities. Vlad Tepes, or Vlad the Impaler, was the person who inspired the famous fictitious vampire, Count Dracula.
This pamphlet is a reinterpretation based on the original medieval German editions, with 12 pages. The text was all hand composed with movable type (Nürnberg Schwabacher) and printed on a reconstruction 15th-century wooden printing press. The woodcut used on the cover was hand cut in cherry wood.
The cover of the coloured version is painted with pigments used in the 15th-century, with the exception of modern substitutes where the original colour is toxic (vermillion, for example), and the text was rubricated in red.
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