Sixteenth century

When “just the tip” is uttered more in dread than in desire.

From: This prymer of Salisbury use
Printed: 1532
Image from: Early English Books Online (STC 15977)

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 22 December 2015: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth This prymer of Salisbury use (1532), the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from Early English Books Online (STC 15977). Copied into this book the twenty-ſecond day of December, 2015. Finis.

Cite the original
This prymer of Salisbury use.
1532.
Early English Books Online (STC 15977).

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