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The Paramaterial Phantasy

“I know the place”: Locating the Woodcut in William Griffith’s 1570 Edition of William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat

William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat remains shrouded in mystery. The bulk of the short fiction supposedly recreates an oration given by Gregory Streamer on December 28th of the preceding year. Streamer’s fantastic tale concerns an “experiment” he performed that allowed him to hear the language of cats. Streamer’s oration, split into three by the character […]

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Posted in Tangents, William Baldwin Tagged bestiaries, Beware the Cat, book history, early modern, sources, William Baldwin, woodcuts 3 Comments

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