Sixteenth century

I post this reluctantly, wary that the Nietzscheans among you might go mad.

I post this reluctantly, wary that the Nietzscheans among you might go mad.
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From
Geffrey Whitney, A choice of emblemes, and other deuises, for the moste parte gathered…
Printed
1586
Image from
Early English Books Online (STC 25438)

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 3 March 2016: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth A choice of emblemes, and other deuises, for the moste parte gathered… (1586), the work of Geffrey Whitney and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from Early English Books Online (STC 25438). Copied into this book the third day of March, 2016. Finis.

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Whitney, Geffrey.
A choice of emblemes, and other deuises, for the moste parte gathered….
1586.
Early English Books Online (STC 25438).

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