Elixirated spirit of scurvy-grass
Medical advertising at its most persuasive can be seen in one of three copies (in two settings: one very rare, another the only known copy) of this woodcut handbill. ‘J. Russel, physician and oculist, at the Two Blew-Posts against Grays-Inn in Holbourn’ here extols the applications of his elixirated spirit in the late 17th century.
Errors
It is 1695, and almost 250 years have passed since Johann Gutenberg first set the ball rolling – you would think his successors might have mastered it by now. But no! Here we find the Parisian printer Frédéric Léonard, imprimeur ordinaire du Roi and imprimeur de l’ordre de Cîteaux, misprinting… his own name!
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