Fifteenth century

Melvin immediately regretted purchasing the extra-large buttplug.

Melvin immediately regretted purchasing the extra-large buttplug.
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From
of Metz Gossuin, Hier begynneth the booke callyd the Myrrour of the worlde ...
Printed
1490
Image from
Early English Books Online (STC 24763)

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 6 January 2016: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Hier begynneth the booke callyd the Myrrour of the worlde ... (1490), the work of of Metz Gossuin and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from Early English Books Online (STC 24763). Copied into this book the ſixth day of January, 2016. Finis.

Cite the original
Gossuin, of Metz.
Hier begynneth the booke callyd the Myrrour of the worlde .
1490.
Early English Books Online (STC 24763).

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