Showing posts with label Early Modern. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Early Modern. Show all posts

Monday, April 27, 2020

Solace

In early modern England, print houses called themselves "chapels," and they had some interesting norms around what they called "solaces," as described in  Joseph Moxon's 1683 Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works : applied to the art of printing.