Nora Epstein

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❧ Newberry Library Instruction and Outreach Librarian ❧ PhD in History, interested in material bibliography, book history, woodcuts, & doodles ❧ she/her ❧ all opinions my own

A woodcut from a 1509 English copy of Ship of Fools, showing an "old fool" emerging from a grave.
Image of a guillotine from the title page of Newberry Library Case FRC 4421 (J'attends le proces de Louis XVI : mis au cachot, pour ses forfaits dévoilés à la Convention nationale, par le Comité de surveillance.)
The Great Book Of Thomas Trevilian. Held in Wormsley Library.