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A three-fold discourse betweene three neighbours, Algate, Bishopsgate, and John Heyden the late cobler of Hounsditch, a professed Brownist. Whereunto is added a true relation (by way of dittie) of a lamentable fire which happened at Oxford two nightsbefore Christ-tide last, in a religious brothers shop, knowne by the name of Iohn of All-trades

1642 · London, Printed for F. Cowles, T. Bates, and I. Wright · 1 picture

A 1642 London pamphlet printed for F. Cowles, T. Bates, and I. Wright, written as a satirical dialogue among three neighbours and a verse account of a fire at Oxford, aimed at popular readers of anti-Puritan broadsheets. Its single woodcut shows a seated woman at a window in a stone arch on the left, while on the right a bearded man in a hat raises a hand toward a strange horned or masked figure in a long coat, both gesturing against a sky with bold, rough hatching; a designer could draw on its crude, blocky line and dramatic gesture for expressive folk-style graphics.

Internet Archive · Robarts - University of Toronto · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library