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Jon Crabb

Editor, British Library Publishing

Jon Crabb is a writer, art historian and editor for British Library Publishing. His latest book is Graven Images: The Art of the Woodcut (2017).

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White line drawing of a fantastical creature with a lion’s body and a human face with a beard on a black background.

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History of science

Monster mash

Beastly births, ass-popes and satanic hybrids: nothing distils the weirdness of the early moderns like their woodcuts

Jon Crabb