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The Drolatic Dreams

Les Songes drolatiques de Pantagruel appeared in Paris in 1565: a book of grotesque woodcut figures with no text beyond their own invention. Pot-bellied soldiers, beaked musicians, people built from barrels, bells and towers. Each stands alone on the page, which is why they make such good tiles.

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