Chapter XI: Part II: , printed at Truro. Spirals of flowers and

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foliage, two eagles.

73. Crownfield, Cambridge. Fruit and flowers in basket, _c._ 1730
four birds and conventional ornament.

74. Knapton. _Works of Farquhar._ Head-piece signed 1728
F. H. and M. H.

75. Printed for Dodsley. _Irene, A Tragedy._ Spirals of 1749
foliage, squirrel in centre.

76. Silver of Sandwich. _Lovers’ Manual._ Fleurons 1753
arranged in geometrical form.

77. Printer unknown. _Ode of Horace._ 1719

TAIL-PIECES

78. Middleton. _Statutes II. Henry VI._ Long narrow _c._ 1540
architectural block, formerly De Worde’s.

79. Kingston & Sutton. _Missale ad usum Sarisburiensis._ 1555
Design: human figure, sprays of flowers, animal
and bird. Criblé. Probably French.

80. Redman. _Year Book II. Henry VI._ Seven lozenge _c._ 1540
ornaments.

81. Oswen, Ipswich. _Exhortation to the Sicke._ Two 1549
figures with stars.

82. Berthelet. _Castle of Health._ Ornament on dark 1539
background from French sources.

83. Printer unknown. _Treasury of Health._ Flower and 1585
bird.

84. Redman. _Year Book II. Henry VI._ Half fleur-de-lys _c._ 1540
and half feathers divided by zigzag white lines.

85. Denham. Holinshed, vol. iii., _Chronicles of Ireland._ 1579
Boy beating two drums.

86. Jugge. _Book of Common Prayer._ Elaborate fleuron 1573
border in four sections, showing three designs.

87. Griffith. _Caveat or Warneing._ Arabesque design. 1567

88. Griffith. _Caveat or Warneing._ Virgin and child in 1567
circle surrounded by floral borders.

89. Wolfe. Sophocles, _Antigone_. A fleuron tail-piece. 1581

90. Vautrollier. _De Rep. Anglorum._ Arabesque design. 1579
Single block.

91. E. Allde. Bodenham’s _Garden of the Muses_. Arabesque 1610
design with architectural detail.

92. W. W. for Cuthbert Burby. _Love’s Labours Lost._ 1598
Arabesque design. Single block.

93. E. Allde. _Basilikon Doron._ Fleuron ornament. 1603

94. John Day. Ascham, _Scholemaster_. Circular arabesque 1579
design. Single block.

95. Islip. _Wit’s Miserie._ Square arabesque design. 1596
Single block.

96. An arabesque tail-piece from Shakespeare’s _c._ 1615
_Pericles_.

97. Vautrollier. _Ciceronis Epistolæ._ Gorgon’s head. 1579

98. Printer uncertain. Cambridge. Tail-piece of seven _c._ 1700
rows of fleurons arranged as reversed triangle.
Reproduced by courtesy of Messrs Bowes & Bowes.

99. Wolfe. Sophocles, _Antigone_. A fleuron tail-piece 1581
showing a different design from No. 89.

100. Printed for B. Lintott. _Odes of Horace._ Tail-piece 1719
to Book IV. Ornate design: cherubs holding
birds, sprays of foliage.

101. Printed for Knapton. _Works of Farquhar._ Tail-piece 1728
of florid design, showing bird in centre
flanked by baskets of flowers.

102. Tonson & Watts. Lucretius, _De rerum natura_. A 1713
specially designed tail-piece to Book IV.

103. Tonson & Watts. Lucretius, _De rerum natura_. A 1713
specially designed tail-piece to Dedication.

104. Crownfield, Cambridge. Bird with outstretched _c._ 1730
wings. Reproduced by courtesy of Messrs Bowes
& Bowes of Cambridge.

105. Clarendon Press, Oxford. Clarendon’s _History of 1702
the Rebellion._ Tail-piece designed and engraved
by M. Burghers.

106. Clarendon Press, Oxford. Clarendon’s _History of 1702
the Rebellion._ Tail-piece designed and engraved
by M. Burghers.

107. Welsh Bible. Architectural design with crowned 1620
rose and cherubs in centre.

108. _Odes of Horace._ Fountain and mermaids. Sprays 1743
of foliage.

109. Crownfield, Cambridge. Tail-piece. Two cornucopiæ _c._ 1730
with fruit and flowers. Tied together with
ribbon and with bunch of flowers suspended from
them. Reproduced by courtesy of Messrs Bowes
& Bowes of Cambridge.

110. Printer unknown. Truro. History of Cornwall. 1750
Figure of Mercury in frame with conventional
sprays of foliage and arch. Flanked with long-tailed
birds holding flowers in their beaks.

ORNAMENTS

111. Pynson & De Worde. Chain ornament. 1500–30

112. Pynson & De Worde. Three designs used to fill up 1500–30
spaces in the text.

113. Printer unknown. _Song of Solomon._ Three acorns. 1620

114. Printer unknown. _A Declaration of Favourable 1583
Dealing of Her Majestie’s Commission._ Arabesque
design.

115. Printer unknown. _History of London._ N.D.

116. Field. E. Nicholas, _Apologia_. Fifteen fleuron units 1649
and acorn arranged as reversed triangles.

117. Grafton. _Actes of Edward VI._ Early form of 1560–70
fleuron arranged on either side of word “Finis.”

118. Allde (Eliz.). Greene’s _Euphues, His Censure to 1634
Philautus._ Female head. Sprays of foliage.
Woman’s head in centre.

119. Printed for R. Dodsley. _Irene: A Tragedy_, by 1749
Saml. Johnson. Basket of flowers. Sprays of
foliage. Two birds. Could be used as tail-piece
if desired.

120. For Stepneth & Redmer. _Atheist’s Tragedie_, by Cyril 1611
Tourneur. Small ornament. Conventional sprays,
with head in centre.

121. Lownes. _Description of New England._ Small ornament. 1616
Lion’s head in centre. Festoons of flowers.
Mark at either end.

122. Buck, Cambridge. _Locustæ._ Small ornament. 1627
Conventional sprays and flowers.

123. Stafford, for John Wright. _King Leir._ Small 1605
ornament. Conventional sprays and flowers.
Differing from preceding.

124. Cotes, for Bellamie. Wm. Wood’s _New England’s 1634
Prospect._ Small ornament. Crowned rose. Conventional
sprays.

125. Jones. Gerald Malynes’ _Center of Circle of Commerce_. 1623
Small ornament. Fleur-de-lys centre. Conventional
sprays.

126. E. A., i.e. Edward Allde, for John Tap. Bodenham’s 1610
_Garden of the Muses_. Very beautiful arabesque
ornament. Reproduced by kind permission of
Messrs Maggs Bros.

127. Adlard & Browne. A flower ornament of unusual _c._ 1770
design, reproduced from Luckombe’s _History of
Printing_.

128. Do. do. do.

129–134. Caslon. Six of the border designs used on the 1734
first specimen sheet issued by this famous type-foundry.
They were more delicate and graceful
than those used in England by his predecessors
and are still in vogue. Compare the modern
specimens manufactured by the same firm.

135–148. Baskerville. Fourteen single line ornaments _c._ 1750
and flowers designed by John Baskerville. Reproduced
from _John Baskerville_ by R. Straus and
K. Dent, by kind permission of Mr R. Straus and
the courtesy of the Cambridge University Press.

INITIALS

149. =T= De Worde. _The Golden Legend._ Large ornamental 1493
letter of ecclesiastical design with decorative
sprays.

150. =P= Whitchurch. Great Bible. Black with white 1540
strap ornament. Bird in centre. With printer’s
initials.

151. =S= Redman. _Statuta._ In imitation of script. Probably 1540
of French origin.

152. =F= Middleton. _Year Book of Henry VI._ 1540

153. =H= De Worde. Reproduced by kind permission 1519
from Mr Sayle’s article, Nov. 1902 (Bibliographical
Society).

154. =Q= Faques. _Manuale Sarum._ Reproduced by kind 1530
permission from Mr Sayle’s article, Nov. 1902
(Bibliographical Society).

155. =A= Notary. _Chronicles of England._ Obtained 1504
from Bocard of Paris.

156. =H= Pynson. _Libello huic regio hæc insunt._ White 1521
on black ground, criblé.

157. =P= Notary. _Golden Legend._ Obtained from Bocard 1503
of Paris. Reproduced by kind permission from
Mr Sayle’s article, Nov. 1902 (Bibliographical
Society).

158. =T= H. Middleton. Apostle series. 1584

159. =F= Barker. Prayer Book. Arabesque design with 1580
Walsingham Crest.

160. =T= Barker. Prayer Book. Arabesque design with 1580
printer’s initials.

161. =F= Eliots Court Press. _Plutarch._ Apostle series. 1603
Seated figure.

162. =V= Redman. _Year Books, Edward III._ White on 1540
dead black ground.

163. =H= Eliots Court Press. _Plutarch._ Apostle series. 1603
Figure with nimbus. Staff in left hand; book
in right.

164. =S= Berthelet. _Bibl. Eliotæ._ Classical. Two 1559
figures and satyr.

165. =H= Printer unknown. _Philip Sydney._ Factotum. _c._ 1596
Arabesque design.

166. =W= Waldegrave. Factotum from _Basilikon Doron_. 1599
Two figures plucking thistles.

167. =S= _Morley Canzonets._ Pictorial. Previously in 1600
the hands of John Day.

168. =T= Eliots Court Press. Especially used by Bradwood. 1603–27
Decorative sprays.

169. =T= Denham. _Footepathe to Felicitie._ Conventional 1577
sprays.

170. =I= Eliots Court Press. Especially used by Bradwood. 1603–27
Rose and thistle crowned.

171. =E= Vautrollier. _Ciceronis Epistolæ._ Outline letter. 1579
Conventional sprays.

172. =D= Barker. Prayer Book. Arabesque design. 1580

173. =D= Newberrie. _Bullinger’s Sermons._ Outline letter. 1577
Pictorial. Probably scene from Bible.

174. =S= Siberch. Erasmus. _De conscribendis epistolis._ 1521
Reproduced by kind permission of Messrs Bowes
& Bowes of Cambridge.

175. =C= Day. Fox, _Book of Martyrs_. Outline letter. 1562
Conventional sprays. Bird with outstretched
wings. Two grotesque figures.

176. =A= Siberch. Erasmus. _De conscribendis epistolis._ 1521
Reproduced by kind permission of Messrs Bowes
& Bowes of Cambridge. White on black. Ecclesiastical
with decorative sprays.

MODERN WORK

177–187. H. W. Caslon & Co., Ltd. Old English 18th
borders. century

188. The Morland Press, Ltd. Border design by Claud 1890–1921
Lovat Fraser. Reproduced from the title-page
re-arranged by Haldane Macfall for _The Lovat
Book_.

189. The Morland Press, Ltd. Tail-piece by Frank _c._ 1920
Brangwyn, R.A., representing an initial F
rising from tulip design.

190. The Morland Press, Ltd. Head-piece basket of _c._ 1920
flowers from design by Frank Brangwyn, R.A.

191. The Morland Press, Ltd. Initials M. P. Design _c._ 1920
by Ludovic Rodo.

192–197. Chiswick Press. Six head-pieces. Conventional 1830–1923
designs.

198–200. Chiswick Press. Three head-pieces, floral. 1830–1923

201–202. Chiswick Press. Two tail-pieces. 1830–1923

203–214. Chiswick Press. Twelve initials. Various 1830–1923
designs.

215. University Press, Oxford. Phœnix ornament 17th
reproduced from Hart’s _Century of century
Typography_.

216. University Press, Oxford. =B.= Blooming initial 17th
reproduced from Hart’s _Century of Typography_. century

217. University Press, Oxford. =I.= Initial reproduced 17th
from Hart’s _Century of Typography_. century

218. University Press, Oxford. Head-piece reproduced 17th
from Hart’s _Century of Typography_. century

219. P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd. Border design. 1920

220. Do. do. do. 1920

221. University Press, Oxford. Circular ornament, floral 18th
design. century

222. P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd. Border design, same 18th
as 220. century

223. University Press, Oxford. Fleuron tail-piece. 18th
century

224. University Press, Oxford. Fleuron tail-piece of a 18th
different design. century

225. P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd. Bold foliage design for 1920
border.

226. P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd. =B.= White initial on 1920
black background.

227. P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd. =T.= White initial with 1920
foliage on black background.

228. P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd. Bold foliage design for 1920
border same as 225.

229. P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd. Head-piece, spirals of 1920
foliage. White on black ground.

230. R. & R. Clark, Ltd., Edinburgh. Decorative head-piece 1875
designed by Walter Crane.

231. P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd. Tail-piece, triangular, 1920
white on black ground.

232. Pelican Press. Border design with centre ornament. 1920
Copy of early arabesque design.

233–240. Pelican Press. English flowers, seven designs. 1920

241. Pelican Press. Border design after Geoffrey Tory. 1923

242. Kelmscott Press. Design from Godefroy of 1893
Boulogne.

243–251. Curwen Press. Nine decorations designed by 1920
Claud Lovat Fraser.

252–260. Curwen Press. Nine flowers and decorations 1922
designed by Percy J. Smith.

261–273. Stephenson, Blake & Co., Ltd. Fourteen designs _c._ 1790
of delicate flower borders, ornaments, and the
famous rose border.

274–284. Stephenson, Blake & Co., Ltd. Various designs _c._ 1780
for borders, and initial =S= and two fine
tail-pieces designed and executed by Bewick.

ILLUSTRATIONS

_Borders_

APHTHONII SOPHISTAE
PRAE EXERCITAMENTA
INTERPRETE
VIRO DOCTISSIMO.

IMPRESSA Londini per Richardum
Pynson regiū impressorem
cum priuilegio a rege indulto/
ne quis nunc in regno
Angliæ imprimat/
aut alíbí impressum/
importatūue in eo
dē regno Anglie
vendat.

1
]

re mei dū tēpus est miserendi ne perdas
me ī tēpore tui tremē]di iudicii/ O bone
ihesu si merui miser prtōr de vera tua iusticia
penā eternā [per] pctīs meis grauissimis
Adhuc apello gfisus de tua iusticia
vera ad tuā mīam ineffabilē/ Utiqz misereberis
mei ut pi[us] pater et misericorsdn̄s/
O bone ihesu que enī vtilitas ī sāguine
meo dū descēdero in corruptionē
eternā Nō enī mortui laudabūt te/ neqzoēs
qui descendūt in infernū O misericordissīe
ihesu miserere mei O dulcissime
ihesu libera me O püssie ihesu [pro]picius
esto michi pctōri/ O ihesu admitte
me miserū pctōrm̄ inter numerū electo[rum]
tuo[rum][symbol] O jhesu salus in te sperantiū O
jhesu salus in te credȳriū miserere mei
dulcis remissio oīm pctō[rum] meorum
O ihesu fili [vir]ginis marie insūde
in me gr̄am tuā sapienciā caritatē castitatē
& hūilitatē ac etiā in oībz aduersitatibus
meis pacienciā scām vt possi te [per]

2
]

¶ Thys Emprynted
at temple barre
be me: Julyan
Notary Dwellynge
in saynt clemētys
parysshe.

4
]

¶ Petri Carmeliani Carmen.
Anglia perpetuos: tibi darrola rubra triūphos.
Perpetuum nomen: perpetuumq[ue] decus.
Her tua Celaceis: redolēs rosa crescit in hortis.
Itoq[ue] aquuam lignis: iungit vtranq[ue] suis.
Septimus hēricus: sapiēs rex Regula morum.
Celeste ingenium: cum probitate tenens.
Ad tantos solus: vigilans ie verit honores.
Ergo abs te debet: iure volente coli.

5
]

Eterno mantura die dumlidera fulgent
Equora dumq; tument hec lainea nostra virebit.
Hinc nostrum celebre et nomē referetur ad astra.
Vndiq; Skeltonis memorabitur altera donis.

11]

Richard Fakes

12]

_Head-Pieces_

_Tail-Pieces_

105]

_Ornaments_

117]

THE
GARDEN
OF THE
_Muses_.

_Quem reserent Musa vtuet dum robor & tellus,
Dum cœlum stellas, dum vehet amnis aquas._

Printed at London by _E. A._ for _Iohn Tap_, and are
to be sold at his shop at Saint Magnus
corner. 1610.

126]

Ornament 2

Ornament 3

Ornament 4

Ornament 5

Ornament 6

Ornament 7

Ornament 8

Ornament 9

Ornament 10

Ornament 11

Ornament 13

Ornament 12

Ornament 14

135–148]

_Initials_

149]

E.W

150]

151]

152]

153]

154]

155]

156]

157]

158]

159]

160]

161]

162]

163]

164]

166]

165]

167]

168]

169]

170]

171]

172]

173]

174]

175]

176]

Modern Work

Old English Borders from the Foundry of Messrs H. W. Caslon & Co., Ltd.

DESIGNS BY
CLAUD
LOVAT FRASER
[1890–1921]

THE MORLAND PRESS
190 Ebury Street
London SW 1

188

A Border from The Morland Press, Ltd.]

Ornaments from The Morland Press, Ltd.

Head-pieces from The Chiswick Press

(Messrs Charles Whittingham & Griggs Ltd.)

Head and Tail Pieces from The Chiswick Press.

203]

204]

205]

206]

207]

208]

209]

210]

211]

212]

213]

214]

Initials from The Chiswick Press.

216]

217]

Ornaments from The University Press, Oxford.

Designs from the Foundry of Messrs P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd. (219, 220, 222), and from The University Press, Oxford (221, 223, 224).

226]

227]

Designs from the Foundry of Messrs P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd.

Messrs P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd.]

Messrs R. & R. Clark, Ltd., Edinburgh.]

Messrs P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd.]

Ornamental Border from The Pelican Press.]

Designs from The Pelican Press.]

A Border from The Pelican Press.]

eche other lettres and messages for taccorde to goo
to gydre, apoynted the tyme of departyng, and of
the waye that they sholde holde.

AND whan Marche was come, ye sholde
haue seen horses arrayed, with sommyers,
palfroyes, and stedes, tentes
and pauyllons, and to make armures.
Ye maye wel knowe that there was
moche to doo of many thynges, ffor
the barons were acorded that they shold not goo
alle to gydre, ffor no contre myght suffyse ne fynde
that which shold be nedeful for them, ffor whiche
cause alle the hoostes neuyr assembled, as ye shal
here, tyl they cam vnto the cyte of Ntycene. The
mene peple charged them self not moche with tentes
ne armures, ffor they myght not bere it, & therfor
euery man garnysshid hym aftir that he was with

242

A Design from The Kelmscott Press. Reproduced by kind permission of the Trustees from a block by Emery Walker, Ltd.]

243–251]

252–260]

Old English Designs from the Foundry of Messrs Stephenson, Blake & Co., Ltd.]

INDEX

Acorn ornament, 60

Aldus, 34, 113

Allde, Eliz., 86

Ames collection of title-pages, 55

_Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire_, 77

_Antigone_, Sophocles, tail-piece, 57

Antiquities of Warwickshire, 27

‘Apostle’ alphabet, 96, 97

Arundel, Earl of, 21

Ashendene Press, 110

_Atheist’s Tragedy_, 86

Bagford collection of title-pages, 55

Barbier, J., 37

Barker, R., 73

Barnes, Joseph, 25

Baskerville, J., 63

Basle, Material obtained from, 22

Beale, J., 50

Berthelet, T., 13, 23, 46
Initials used by, 93

Bewick, T., 29

_Bibliotheca Eliotæ_, 93

Blake, Garnett & Co., 113

Bocard, J., Initials of, 94

Bodoni Press, 111

Bollifant, Ed., 25

Borrowings by English printers, 90

Bourne’s _History of Newcastle_, 79

Bowes, R., _Catalogue of Books printed at Cambridge_, 79

Bowyer, Wm., 29, 61, 77

Bradwood, M., 25, 72

Brangwyn, F., 114

_Briefe Treatise of Testaments and Wills_, 85

Bry, T. de, 113

Buck, T., 52

Buck, T. & J., 97

Bullock, H., 26

Burghers, M., Influence of, 29
Head and tail pieces designed by, 74, 75
Initials designed by, 97

Burghers, M., 51, 77

Burleigh family crest as ornament, 85

Burne-Jones, Sir E., 113

Burns, _Poems_, Border to, 51

Butsch’s _Bücher Ornamentik_, 90

Bynneman, H., 24, 25, 48, 70, 73, 84, 96

Cambridge Univ. Press, 116

Carmelianus, Petrus, 43

Caslon, W., 61, 115

Caslon foundry, modern history, 111

Casting-house, 11

_Catherine of Siena_, 94

_Caveat or Warneing, etc._, tail-piece described, 68

Caxton, 18, 19, 20, 21, 35, 36, 56

_Center of the Circle of Commerce_, 86

Change in character of head and tail pieces, 76

Chaucer’s Works, 33

_Chrysostum_, 25

Ciceronis, _Epistolæ_, 69

Clarendon’s _History of the Rebellion_, 75

Clark, R. & R., 113

_Clavis Apocalyptica_, Border to, 52

Classical designs of initials, 93

Combination of fleuron and decorative block, 50

_Commentary_, Lathbury’s, 34

_Complete History of Cornwall_, 80

Copland, R., 20

_Copy of a Letter, etc._, 72, 73

Copyists, Work of, 27

_Cosmographical Glasse_, 57, 93

Cowley, Dr, 38

Crane, W., 113

Creede, T., 48

Crown ornament, 60

Crownfield, C., 79

Curious head-piece design, 73

Curwen Press, 114

Daniel, R., 52

Day, J., 23, 93, 94

_De Anima_, Aristotle’s, 34

Decorative blocks, date of introduction, 67
Eighteenth century, 28
used by Eliots Court printers, 71

Decorative head and tail pieces, 69

Denham, H., 24, 25
Borders used by, 48
Initials used by, 96

_De Rep. Anglorum_, 69

_Description of New England_, 86

_Diary of Lady Willoughby_, 105, 112

_Dionysius_, Border in, 52

Doves Press, 110

Duff, E. G., quoted, 18, 47, 55

Du Pré, 17, 34

Dutch ornaments in English books, 27

Early English printers of fifteenth century, 18

Early Newcastle typography, 80

Early printers, Methods of, 4, 5

_Early Venetian Printing_, 90

East, T., 48

Ecclesiastical character of first initials, 89

Edward IV., patron of Caxton, 21

Eliots Court Press, 25, 28, 70, 85, 86

Eliots Court printers, Initials of, 91, 96

Elizabeth, Queen, 24

English Illustrated Magazine, 113

Engraved borders to Bibles, 22

Engraved title-pages, 49

_Enterlude called Lusty Juventus_, 59

_Euphues, his Censure to Philautus_, 86

Exhibition of twentieth century books, 110

_Exposition on Epistle to Romans_, 73

Factotums, 98, 99

Faques, Border used by, 43, 45, 59, 92

Fenton, G., 71

Field, R., 71

_Fifteen Oes_, 35, 39

_Fior de Virtu_, 21

Fletcher, M., 73

Fleuron, 6, 7, 26 _et passim_
borders, 47
Date of introduction of, 57
as head and tail piece, 63
its use for factotums, 100
Variations of, 58, 59

Fleur-de-lys ornament, 60

_Footepath to Felicitie_, 48, 96

Foreign border-pieces, 22

Foxe, J., _Book of Martyrs_, 95

France, Use of flowers in, 9

Fraser, C. L., 114

Fuller’s _Church History_, 97

_Garden of the Muses_, 57

Garlandea, J. de, 83

Germany, Use of flowers in, 9

Gibson, Robert, 23

_Goodly Garland_, Borders in, 45

Grafton, R., 23

_Gratulationis Valdinensis_, 85

Gray’s _Elegy_, Border to, 51

_Greate Herball_, 46

Greg, Dr W. W., 13

Griffin, Edw. (I.), 25

Griffin, Edw. (II.), 25, 72

Grotesque initials, 94

Grover, J., 27

H. F., designer of ornaments, 78

Hales, Alex. of, 34

Hart, H., 115

Hatfield, A., 25

Hatton, Sir C., 84

Haviland, John, 25

Henry VII., King, 21

Henry VIII., King, 21

Heraldic and personal initials, 94

_Hickscorner_, 43

_History of Guicciardini_, 71

_History of Origin and Progress of Printing_, 7

_History of the Rebellion_, 97

Holbein, 113

Holinshed’s _Chronicles_, 70, 71

Hollar, W., 27

Homer, _Workes_, 71

Hornby, St John, 110

Housman, L., 113

Hughes, A. P., 113

Huvin, J., of Rouen, 37

_Hypnerotomachia_, 21

Illuminator, his advantage over printer, 17

Improvement in decoration of printed books, 17

Initial letters, their value as ornaments, 89

Initials in Bibles and Books of Common Prayer, 92

Islip, A., 73

Jackson, wood-engraver, 8

Jennings, Dr Oscar, 91

Jenson, N., 17, 34

Jewell, B., _Works_, 72

Johnson, Dr, and Goldsmith, 116, 117

Jones, W., 86

Jugge, R., 28, 57, 96

Kelmscott Press, 106–110

King Lear, 86

Kingston, F., 86

Kingston and Sutton, 68

Kyrforth, C., 25

Lair, _see_ Siberch

Leeu, G., 17

Legat, J., 26

_Legenda Aurea_, 40, 41, 42
Initial from, 92

Leicester, Earl of, Arms of, 94

Leicester family, Crest of, 85

Lettou and Machlinia, 19

_Libellus de Conscribendis_, 95

_Liber precum publicarum_, 60

Longman, T., 111

Lownes, H., 24, 73, 86

Lownes, R., 73

Lozenge ornament, First use of, 59

Luckombe, 7, 8, 9

Lucretius, _De rerum natura_, 77

Lyttleton’s _Tenures_, 47

M. M., designer of ornaments, 78

Machlinia, Border used by, 35

McKerrow, R. B., on ornamental device, 13, 44, 46

McRae, J. F., 61, 111

Maltese cross as ornament, 22

Malynes, G., 86

Manuscripts, Decoration of, 3, 4

Margaret, Duchess of Richmond, 21

_Mer des Hystoires_, 21

Miscellaneous ornaments, 83

Missal, Border to Morton’s, 38

_Modus Tenendi_, 47

_Monasticon Anglicanum_, 26

_Monomachie of Motives_, 48

_Montaigne_, 72

Morland Press, 114

Morris, William, and the Kelmscott Press, 106–110

Morton, Cardinal John, 21, 37, 38

Morton Missal, Initials from, 92

Moxon, Joseph, 27

_Multorum Vocabulorum_, 83

Newberrie, R., 93

_Newe Booke--An Exhortation, etc._, 68

Newton, N., 25

_New World of Words_, 72

Norton, J., 72

Notary, J., 22
Borders used by, 37, 40, 41, 42
Initials of, 94

Odd blocks used for head and tail pieces, 67

_Odes of Horace_, 79

_Old English Letter Foundries_, 24

_Orcharde of Syon_, 46

Ornaments, Definition of, 12
in Caslon’s specimen sheets, 61

Os, G. van, 22, 94

Oswen, John, 68
Borders used by, 47

Oxford University Press, 25, 115

Paragraph marks, 4, 22

Paragraph ornaments, 6, 83, 84

Parker, Archbishop, 24, 94

Parr, Rev. E., 73

Pelican Press, 114

_Philomythie_, Border in, 49

Pictures, ornamental blocks so described, 11

Pigouchet, 17, 34

_Pilgrimes Solace_, 74

Pollard, Prof. A. W., 55, 91, 97

Poverty of ornament in sixteenth century English books, Reasons
for, 18, 19, 20, 21

_Printers’ and Publishers’ Devices_, 13, 85

Purslowe, G., 25, 73

Pynson, R., 19, 35, 37, 38, 43, 56, 59, 61, 83, 94, 95

_Quidam_, 21

Ratdolt, E., 17, 34, 114

Redman, R., 59, 84
Initial of, 95

Redmer, R., 86

Reed, T. B., 24

Reformation, its effect on book decoration, 22

Reynes, John, Initial of, 94

Ribbon ornament, 60
Baskerville’s, 64

Rivers, Earl, 21

Rood, T., 20, 34, 38

Rose ornament, 60

Royal Arms as ornament, 85

_St Albans Chronicle_, 40, 41, 42, 43

_Sallust_, Border to, 45

Sanderson, Cobden, 110

Sarum Missal, 68

Saxon type cut by J. Day, 24

Sayle, C., 24, 55, 91, 97

Scolar, John, 25

Seres, W., 23

_Sermon preached at Stafford_, 63

_Seven Sorrows that Women have, etc._, 20, 21

Shanks, Messrs, 114

Short, P., 24

_Shyp of Folys_, Borders in, 44, 45

Siberch, John, 26
Border used by, 51
Initials used by, 93, 95

Siegburg, _see_ Siberch

Silver, S., of Sandwich, 63

Small ornaments of the eighteenth century, 62, 63

Smith, P. J., 91, 114

Smith, T. W., 112

Stafford, S., 73

Star ornament, 60

_Statutes 7th Henry VI._, 67

_Statutes 19th Henry VII._, 43

Stephenson, Blake & Co., Ltd., 113

Stepneth, 86

Stokes, M., 113

Sun Printing Office, 11

Sylvius, Anton, 24, 93

Tail-piece in 1679 _Herodotus_, 27

Thistle ornament, 60

Thomas, T., 26

Thomson, J., _Poem on Liberty_, 78

Tonson, J., and J. Watts, 77

Tory, G., 114

Tottell, R., 23

_Treatise made by Athanasius_, 57

Treveris, P., 46

_Two Centuries of Type-founding_, 61, 111

Type-founders in England, 27

Urn ornament, 60

Vautrollier, 60, 69, 84
Initials used by, 95

Venetian printers, 33

Vérard, A., 89

Vostre, 34

Waldegrave, 99

Walker, Emery, 110, 113

Walsingham, F., Crest and Arms of, 95

Watts, John, 61

Whitchurch, Ed., 23, 94

White, John, 79

_White Wolf_, 49

Whittingham, C., the elder and younger, 103, 104, 111

Windet, John, 85

Window frame borders, 46

Wolfe, R., 23, 93, 96

Woodcut borders, seventeenth century, 26

Worde, W. de, 19, 37, 39, 43, 56, 59, 68, 94

_Works of George Farquhar_, 78

_Works of Sir W. Temple_, 78

Wyer, Robert, 68

_Year Books_ of Edward III., Border in, 44

_Year Book_, 11th Henry VI., 59

_Youth’s Instructor_, Border in, 50

FOOTNOTES:

[1] _The Fleuron_, a journal of typography, edited by Oliver Simon, 1923.

[2] _A Concise History of the Origin and Progress of Printing_, with practical instructions to the trade in general. London, 1770, pp. 287–90.

[3] T. B. Reed, _A History of the Old English Letter-Foundries_, 1887, p. 28.

[4] A. W. Pollard, _Early Illustrated Books_, 1893, p. 228.

[5] C. Sayle, “Initial Letters in Early English Printed Books” (_Transactions of the Bibliographical Society_).

[6] Harl. 5915 (45).

[7] _English Provincial Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders to 1557._ Sandars Lectures, 1911. Cambridge, 1912, 8vo.

[8] _Two Centuries of Type-founding._ [By J. F. McRae.] 1920.

[9] Harl. 5929.

[10] H. Hart, _Notes on a Century of Typography_, 1900, p. 145.

[11] _The Charles Whittinghams Printer_, 1896.

Transcriber’s Notes:

1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.

2. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the original.

3. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.

4. Italics are shown as _xxx_.

5. Bold print is shown as =xxx=.

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