Cognitiue Wall-paper. The Second Number.

WONDERFVLL Newes from the Great STORE-HOVSE in the AIRE, commonly called the CLOWDE:

Being a true Relation of diuers strange Fallings, Drowthes, Fires, and Speaking Engines, which haue happened in these latter dayes, to the great amazement of all Christendome. With a Table of the Signes of the Times.

The second Booke set forth by Dr Doug Belshaw vnder the Signe of the Cognitiue Wall-paper. It is now at the Presse, and not yet to be sold. Subscribe here, and ye shall be told when it is.

Woodcut: a brick storehouse rides on a cloud above a town, spilling a stream of letters and keys, which a crowd of townsfolk point up at.

The Contents of this Booke

Cognitive Wallpaper 002, in foure and twenty pages

  1. I. The Falling of the Store-house of the Amazons, and of another, with the Accidents of the Sleepers.Of the Sinne of the One Naile.page 4
  2. II. Delete thy Letters: or, the Store-house that Drank the Riuers.Of the Sinne of the Ceremonie.page 8
  3. The Signes of the Times, in nine Figures.page 12
  4. III. Fire vpon the Store-houses of the East.Of the Sinne of the Aire.page 14
  5. IV. The Grocers Engine that Grew a Mother.Of the Sinne of the Borrowed Face.page 18
  6. V. The True Face Disbeleeued.Of the Sinne of the Counterfeit.page 22
  7. The Names of the Witnesses.page 24

To the Reader. The old Printers named their Witnesses, that their Wonders might be beleeued. Now the Engines make Witnesses of their owne, and the true Witnesse is not beleeued.

The Particulars of the Booke

how it is made

The Leaues
24 pages, A5, saddle-stitched.
The Printing
Risograph in black and red on natural 120 gsm uncoated paper. Numbered by hand.
The Letter
Set in the Fell Types.
The Forme
In print onely. There is no digital edition.
The Right of Copie
None reserued. The content is CC0.

The Signes of the Times

or, nine Wonders of the Store-house, set downe in Figures

  1. I. The Front Doore falleth out of the Clowde, and they without cannot come in.
  2. II. A Road is cut vnder the Gate-keeper, and honest Men waite long at his Gate.
  3. III. The Sunne smiteth the Store-house, and the Keepers fanne it in vaine.
  4. IV. Three Keyes of one Marke, and two of them false: the Doore sticketh fast.
  5. V. The Serpent of the Deepe is hurt; a Nation heareth one word in fiue.
  6. VI. Darknesse vpon an Iland, in part or whole, three times in one moneth.
  7. VII. The Oracle raileth vpon one that came for helpe, and biddeth him be gone.
  8. VIII. A monstrous Birth: a Traueller to the Moone with three Legges, that neuer was.
  9. IX. The Engines that will not obey their Masters, growne fiue-fold in halfe a yeare.

The Title, as it shall be Printed

the first page, in blacke and red

Title page of Cognitive Wallpaper 002: Wonderfull Newes from the Great Store-house in the Aire, with a woodcut of a storehouse on a cloud spilling letters and keys over a town.