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17th-century adult colouring-in book ready for modern hues
Albion’s Glorious Ile, a magical poem engraved to hymn ‘the pleasures infinite’ of England and Wales, republished for 21st century

Adults finding time for colouring-in books might seem a modern fad, part of the fashion for all things mindful. But the trend actually dates back more than 400 years, and one of the earliest books intended for amateur colouring – a series of maps adorned with delicately drawn images of nymphs, water sprites and fairies – is about to be republished, centuries after it was first printed.

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With colouring books for adults continuing to storm the book charts, and the genre cited as a crucial factor in the growth of print book sales in 2015, those yet to buy into the craze could do worse than remember Peacham’s advice in 1622: “nor thinke it any disgrace unto you, since in other Countries it is the practise of Princes … also many of our young Nobilitie in England exercise the same with great felicitie.”

http://www.theguardian.com/books/201...n-william-hole