Seventeenth century

“Are towns and churches or are people bigger?” -“People.” “Done.”

"Are towns and churches or are people bigger?" -"People." "Done."
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From
Archie Armstrong, A banquet of ieasts. Or Change of cheare Being a collection of…
Printed
1630
Image from
Early English Books Online (STC 1368)

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 24 November 2015: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth A banquet of ieasts. Or Change of cheare Being a collection of… (1630), the work of Archie Armstrong and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from Early English Books Online (STC 1368). Copied into this book the twenty-fourth day of November, 2015. Finis.

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Armstrong, Archie.
A banquet of ieasts. Or Change of cheare Being a collection of….
1630.
Early English Books Online (STC 1368).

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