Artist: "I messed up the faces." Printer: "We'll add an elaborate border. No one will know."

Artist: "I messed up the faces." Printer: "We'll add an elaborate border. No one will know."
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Artist: "I messed up the faces." Printer: "We'll add an elaborate border. No one will know."
Artist: "I messed up the faces." Printer: "We'll add an elaborate border. No one will know."

Source: The internet is a place of theft. And I was a notorious thief here. Shame on me, but I will make amends if I ever have EEBO access again. But life out here is hard for the unaffiliated academic.

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 18 November 2015: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Artist: “I messed up the faces.” Printer: “We’ll add an elaborate…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. Copied into this book the eighteenth day of November, 2015. Finis.

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