Xylography involves writing the text to be printed onto thin paper, fixing the paper face down on a flat wooden block and then carving away the white parts to leave the text upstanding in relief. In order to print, it is necessary to […]

I put it off all I can, becauſe I wold avoyde any further Jorney then to Paris, hoping that the King will now be thinking of his return thither to inthronize his new Queen; whereof I wold have been very glad to have underſtood ſome certainty from you, and do yet deſire to know as ſoon as may be, what is the King's purpoſe in it; that at my coming in Paris, I may be able to reſolve what to do.

The letter was written by the late Jan Voorhoeve, a major Africanist and tonologist.

this should not be regarded as a good reason for going narrow.