Tag: John Wight

“Welcome the Wight that Bringeth Such Light”

“Welcome the Wight that Bringeth Such Light”

By Steve Ferguson This is the device of a bookseller, John Wight, who traded at the Sign of the Rose in St. Paul’s Churchyard, London, between 1549 and 1589.  He’s holding a book titled Scientia. This might be called a “canting” device (i.e., an emblematic […]