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Aries Aries comes under the entry for the 20th of March: [more...] |
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Vernal Equinox Perhaps not a very clear illustration of an equinox, but still a pretty woodcut of the Sun’s rays reaching the Earth. |
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April April is a youth with curly hair and carrying a garland. He wears a tunic and sandals, with a cape billowing out behind him in the wind, and he rides a bucking bull that is jumping up out of a puddle, reminding us that [in England] April is a season [...] [more...] |
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May A poem beneath the picture reads as follows: [more...] |
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Francis Grose, Esq. F.S.A. etc. Francis Grose was a well-known historian and lexicographer. There are some scanned images from his Antiquities and also his 1811 dictionary of slang. [more...] |
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June (page 738) [more...] |
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Summer (page 817) [more...] 482x482 65K |
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July A naked and barefoot bearded man rides a lion, holding reins. He carries a two-handed scythe strapped to his back, with a sickle at his side, and laughs, with his right [...] [more...] |
