On this page, Dr Malcolm Jones (m.h.jones@shef.ac.uk) of the University of Sheffield presents surprising and unusual printed images from early modern England—from the polemical to the pornographic. The commentaries derive from Dr Jones’ longstanding researches into the early modern English print, to be published in his book, The Print in Early Modern England: An Historical Oversight, forthcoming from Yale University Press in spring 2009.

The prints that have so far appeared are as follows:

All Doe Ride the Asse: October 2006
Cats Castle Besieged and Stormed by the Rats: August 2007
Committee; or Popery in Masquerade: April 2008
Common Weales Canker Wormes: October/November 2008
Cully Flaug’d: December 2007
Doctor Panurgus: November 2006
Embleme of Englands Distractions: August 2006
England's Miraculous Preservation Emblematically Described: December 2008
Funeral Obsequies of Sir All-in-New-Fashions: September 2007
Hunting after Money: November 2007
Infallible Mountebank, or Quack Doctor: September 2008
Jesuit Displaid: April 2007
Lawyer settles a dispute over an oyster: March 2008
Mappe of the Man of Sin: August 2008
'May' from the Months: May 2008
New Yeares Guift for Shrews: September 2006
Powder Treason: October 2007
Revells of Christendome: January/February 2008
Sucklington Faction: June/July 2008
Syons Calamity or Englands Miserye Hieroglyphically Delineated: January 2007
This Ages Rarity, or the Emblem of a Good Servant Explained: March 2007
This Costly Fish Catcht: February 2007
Tittle-Tattle: or the Several Branches of Gossipping: December 2006
Tree of Man’s Life: May 2007
Winchester Wedding: June/July 2007