Fifteenth century

This ox can’t even with this artist’s sense of proportion.

This ox can't even with this artist's sense of proportion.
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From
Aesop, Here begynneth the book of the subtyl historyes and fables of Esope…
Printed
1484
Image from
Early English Books Online (STC 175)

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 28 January 2015: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Here begynneth the book of the subtyl historyes and fables of Esope… (1484), the work of Aesop and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from Early English Books Online (STC 175). Copied into this book the twenty-eighth day of January, 2015. Finis.

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Aesop.
Here begynneth the book of the subtyl historyes and fables of Esope….
1484.
Early English Books Online (STC 175).

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