Re: Help with identification, please

[John Overholt <overholt@FAS.HARVARD.EDU>]

The Harvard copy has an identical woodcut, so I take it to be one of the 
(quite varied) tail-pieces that end each chapter.

John Overholt
Hyde Project Cataloger
Houghton Library
Harvard University
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog



Pia Oliver wrote:
> We are trying to find out whatever we can about the following:
>
> 'The illustrious and renowned history of the seven famous champions of 
> Christendom. In three parts.'  L: For L. Hawes, and Comp.; C. and R. 
> Ware; and S. Crowder, 1766. 12mo. 156pp.
> ESTC N16797. [Harvard; UCLA]
>
> Cataloguing it, it was discovered, at the base of B11r (p.45), a small 
> circular woodcut with the word 'FACSIMILE' in it see image here 
> <http://www.RandallHouseRareBooks.com/facsimile.jpg>
>
> The leaf absolutely matches the rest of the book. We have never seen 
> this woodcut or anything similar and would very much like to solve the 
> mystery.
>
> tia
>
> Pia