Here's a link to a recent blog on the Library of Congress site about Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft. One nice feature is that it includes a link to a digitized and downloadable pdf of the 1584 first edition from the McManus Young Collection.
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2020/10/that-magical-mystical-book-on-witchcraft-from-1584/
The Discoverie of Witchcraft
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I love how the first edition draws the reader in with a false sense of comprehension with a fairly easy to read typeface and then, after thirty pages or so, slams you with Gothic Black type. I remember the jolt I got when I first saw it, almost twenty years ago
By the second ed, they had reverted to what is essentially Times New Roman (or the seventeenth century equivalent), which makes things easier...
By the second ed, they had reverted to what is essentially Times New Roman (or the seventeenth century equivalent), which makes things easier...
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Re: The Discoverie of Witchcraft
I'm not seeing pages 297 and 298.
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PressureFan wrote:I'm not seeing pages 297 and 298.
I'm not having that problem, either with the online version or the downloaded PDF.
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Ian Kendall wrote: By the second ed, they had reverted to what is essentially Times New Roman (or the seventeenth century equivalent)
At least there was no 17th century equivalent of Comic Sans. Or Papyrus.
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Comic Sans was for "Bob". Not the guy with the pipe
At a guess - choice of foreign languages by non-native speakers was used for similar effect.
At a guess - choice of foreign languages by non-native speakers was used for similar effect.
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Ein großes Dankeschön, Richard, for sharing that link!
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I think I still have a copy of Bob lying around here somewhere...
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