Monday, May 12, 2014

A catalogue of the earles, lords, knights, generalls, collonels, lieutenant...

I was fascinated by this print because of something that doesn't show up on the EEBO scan. Namely, three mis-impressions that hover behind and around the image-text.

The image itself is supposed to depict a Warrior in knightly garb who's late defeated the cavaliers.


  • One patch of text to the right of the image (from "At Newberry fight" through "In fight by the E. of Manchester near Horncastle") has the bottom line of the title, "fled out of the kingdome," through the text, "Of the Garrison at Lime," rotated 180 degrees. Over that same area is a reversed image of the copperplate.
  • One patch of the text just below (from "At Barkley castle" through "At Tadcaster of Newcastles men"") that has the text from middle of the leftmost two columns, rotated 300 degrees.
  • One patch of the text to the bottom (from "At Tadcaster" through "At Glocester siege") has the vertical inversion of the copperplate engraving .

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