1) Yes, I bought this. 2) No, it isn’t even a woodcut. 3) No, my wife won’t let me frame and hang it. And 4) Yes, no regrets.

1) Yes, I bought this. 2) No, it isn’t even a woodcut. 3) No, my wife won’t let me frame and hang it. And 4) Yes, no regrets.
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Source: The internet is a place of theft. And I was a notorious thief here. Shame on me, but I will make amends if I ever have EEBO access again. But life out here is hard for the unaffiliated academic.

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 10 April 2021: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth 1) Yes, I bought this. 2) No, it isn’t even a woodcut. 3) No, my wife…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. Copied into this book the tenth day of April, 2021. Finis.

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