@komokwa - I can't speak to that - only that it might be. That aside, it sure is one homely thing, isn't it? ;) .
The quotation is from the Thirty-seventh Psalm (Verse 4), as noted in the sampler. The text is from the Tyndale-Coverdale Bible. .
Shades of Hereford Cathedral! .
@komokwa - That's the way I've always felt looking at this horrid thing - "the worst looking book I've ever seen." [ATTACH] Also the most...
@J Dagger - One of those, "authentic," Easter Island souvenirs from the sixties, perhaps?...
@Drew - Yashar Bish: https://www.yashar-bish.com/rug-motifs-symbols-and-meaning.html and Kilim: https://www.kilim.com/kilim-wiki/kilim-motifs...
@MrNate - What - no one bought you lunch? .
"I reeled around to face Boo Radley and his bloody fangs; instead, I saw Dill ringing the bell with all his might in Atticus's face." .
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@Bronwen - Remember that first year in school, when Sister Mary Trapezoid screamed that if your handwriting was horrid, you'd not amount to...
@Bronwen - It's an ascii code; the Unicode is 0192. In ages dimmed to mem'ry, 'twas long and long ago, a mighty culture flourished here before....
Oh, ƒurely ƒhe can't be ƒerious! .
I quite agree - and surely not eighteenth century, when it was still remembered that Pandora opened a jar (πίθοι) and not a box. This - like a...
@Bronwen It never failed, You'd read them through, Then at the last You'd just be ;)
@Frank Luongo - It's one from a set of eight, as you've doubtless already seen:...
@Frank Luongo - With his thwart lance And his short pants, He looks like that feller Of Señor de Cervantes! Edit: Holy cows, I guessed just...
With the advent of digital printing, nearly everything became obsolete. For an idea of what real printing once was, have a look at Aldus' 1499...
@KSW - Your metalcuts are twentieth century. Lots of early images were re-used over the years - some were even re-used within the same book, as...
It appears to read, "CONIGREE," Herefordshire perhaps? [ATTACH] .
It's the printer's mark of Mathias Goes, Antwerp.
Separate names with a comma.
