Seventeenth century

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From: Henry Peacham, Minerua Britanna or A garden of heroical deuises furnished, and adorned with…
Printed: 1612
Image from: Early English Books Online (STC 19511)

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 27 April 2016: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Minerua Britanna or A garden of heroical deuises furnished, and adorned with… (1612), the work of Henry Peacham and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from Early English Books Online (STC 19511). Copied into this book the twenty-ſeventh day of April, 2016. Finis.

Cite the original
Peacham, Henry.
Minerua Britanna or A garden of heroical deuises furnished, and adorned with….
1612.
Early English Books Online (STC 19511).

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