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We are celebrating National Garden Week with these wonderful woodcuts from The Gardeners Labyrinth. Originally published in 1577, this popular gardening manual covered everything from seed selection to watering to landscaping, and also included a section on the medicinal and health benefits of some plants.
Thomas Hill. The gardeners labyrinth. London: Henry Ballard, 1608.
Here's hoping your weekend is as nice as this fancy gilt and gauffered foreedge!
Behm, Jean. Chronologica Manuductio...Frankfurt am Main, 1619.
Galloping into #spookyseason like... Raise your scythe if you also just love October. Woodcut from: Thomas Chamberlain. The minister preaching his own funeral sermon. (Boston, 1790).
More cornucopias?!
Just in case you didn't your fill this Thanksgiving here are a couple more, just for good measure. Happy #FinisFriday!
Finispiece from: The vvhole book of Psalmes. London, 1617
Oh, hello incunabula. Fancy meeting you here! An incunable or “fifteener” refers to material printed before 1501.
You know when you are roughing in a database entry for a 1592 imprint in Latin and discover a 42 page Mss section bound in at the rear. It’s that sort of day. #rarebooks #earlyprinting #rarebookcataloging https://www.instagram.com/p/CmaHWb8Mk2n/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
One of the pretty cool things to fall from the ether recently. 1634, completely unsophisticated, copy of Wood’s, New-England Prospect. Effectively a promotional piece to promote immigration to the New World, it is the earliest detailed account of Massachusetts. #americana #newengland #earlyprinting https://www.instagram.com/p/CjQcdLFr2Mt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Twenty-five years ago I wrote these concluding words of an article on 15th century printing technology, the power of biblical and christian symbolism, and man's innate drive towards mammalian herd-mentality: "In the beginning was the word, and the word was printed, and the printed word became god." Sixteen years ago I put the article in a storage box. But the last sentence still rings hauntingly true. #incunabula #earlyprinting #guttenbergbible #lastchancelifecoach #lifecoach #lifecoach #montana #helena #fredcowie
