SIXTEENTH & SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES PRIVATE PRESS
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Percy, William: Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia (1594), without 16th century typography
      Percy, William: Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia (1594), with 16th century typography
      Lee, Sidney: Percy entry in The Dictionary of National Biography.

Fane, Mildmay: Otia Sacra (1648), without 17th century typography
      Fane, Mildmay: Otia Sacra (1648), with 17th century typography
      Rigg, J.M.: Fane entry in The Dictionary of National Biography.

      Notes regarding this publication of Otia Sacra.



To the reader:
In the interests of accuracy one version of the text(s) will be reproduced for the most part with the alphabet in which it was printed. The present day letter 'u' was occasionally rendered as 'v', whilst 'v' might be found as 'u', 's' as 'f' (sometimes without the horizontal stroke), 'j' as an 'i', and 'w' as 'vv', etc. There may possibly have been an aesthetic requirement in the choice of letter. Small-sized gifs have been used to represent the 's/f', although those with a more recent generation of browser could, if they so wished, substitute "ſ" for the letter (&+#+383+; — see source code).
      Fonts from the following .zip file 'fonts.zip' may be used in the above.



Last update 10th October, 2006