All of these look like they could have been done by Doctor Seuss, but damn…

All of these look like they could have been done by Doctor Seuss, but damn...
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Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 25 May 2017: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth All of these look like they could have been done by Doctor Seuss, but…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France. Copied into this book the twenty-fifth day of May, 2017. Finis.

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“All of these look like they could have been done by Doctor Seuss, but….”
Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France,
gallica.bnf.fr/m/ark:/12148/btv1b84524043/f93.item.

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