Sixteenth century

#BuddyDeath. Sure, he looks cute and fun, but his finger guns are … deadly.

From: The kalender of shepherdes
Printed: London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1528
Image from: Early English Books Online (STC 22411)

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 17 February 2016: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth The kalender of shepherdes (London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1528), 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 22411). Copied into this book the ſeventeenth day of February, 2016. Finis.

Cite the original
The kalender of shepherdes.
London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1528.
Early English Books Online (STC 22411).

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