Sixteenth century

Dendrophilia. The struggle is real.

From: Pergaminus Nicolaus, [The dialoges of creatures moralysed Applyably and edificatyfly, to euery mery and…
Printed: 1530
Image from: Early English Books Online (STC 6815)

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 18 February 2016: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth [The dialoges of creatures moralysed Applyably and edificatyfly, to euery mery and… (1530), the work of Pergaminus Nicolaus and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from Early English Books Online (STC 6815). Copied into this book the eighteenth day of February, 2016. Finis.

Cite the original
Nicolaus, Pergaminus.
[The dialoges of creatures moralysed Applyably and edificatyfly, to euery mery and….
1530.
Early English Books Online (STC 6815).

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