HEAD-PIECES

37.Kingston & Sutton. Missale ad usum Sarisburiensis. Flowers and figures.1555
38.Oswen. Exhortation to the Sicke. Triangular design with fox in centre.1548
39.Printer unidentified. The Treasury of Health. Flowers and foliage.1585
40.Denham. School of Skill. Conventional design: flowers.1581
41.Denham. Footepath of Felicitie. Conventional flowers.1581
42.Denham. Guide to Godlinesse. Conventional design, showing rose.1581
43.Head-piece from Philip Sidney. Twisted ribbon design.1580–90
44.Denham. Head-piece from Holinshed’s Chronicles, vol. i. Bear holding sprays. Men and dogs. Conventional foliage.1579
45.Holinshed’s Chronicles of Ireland. Conventional sprays: satyrs, animals, insects, etc.1579
46.Field. History of Guicciardini. Conventional design: sprays and flowers, two winged figures playing on flutes.1599
47.Waldegrave. Basilikon Doron. Arabesque design.1599
48.Bynneman. Morelius. Conventional design, with two archers.1583
49.Vautrollier. De Rep. Anglorum. Head with cornucopia of fruit.1579
50.Vautrollier. De Rep. Anglorum. Composite design: spirals resembling letter A. Boys with bowl of fruit and flowers, animals and grotesques.1579
51.The Journall or Daily Register. Similar design to foregoing, but smaller.1601
52.Eliots Court Press. Copy of a Letter. Composite design: spirals of foliage, grotesque fish, winged snakes, winged figures with javelins.1606
53.Eliots Court Press. Spirals of foliage. National emblems: lion and unicorn.1606
54.Eliots Court Press. National emblems, crowned and separate.1606
55.Eliots Court Press. Fleur-de-lys with figures and scrolls.1606
56.Eliots Court Press. Cherubs blowing horns, from which issue spirals of fruit and flowers. Copy of French block.1606
57.Macham. Homer, Prince of Poets. Composite design: two cornucopiæ. National emblems: lion and unicorn.1610
58.Printer not known. A Pilgrime’s Solace. Zig-zag ribbon, with national emblems.1612
59.Haviland. Fruit and flowers issuing from a jar.1634
60.Macham. Homer, Prince of Poets. Architectural, with royal arms.1610
61.Macham. Homer, Prince of Poets. Composite design: spirals of fruit and flowers with insects.1610
62.Macham. Homer, Prince of Poets. Composite design: four horsemen.1610
63.Barker. Architectural, with royal arms.c. 1620
64.Printer unknown. Book of Prayers. Urns with flower ornaments.1662
65.Printer unknown. Double row of national emblems and fleur-de-lys.c. 1680
66.For Busbie. O per se O. Fleurons arranged as headpiece.1612
67.Printer unknown. Double row of acorns.1620
68.Printer unknown. Double row of fleurons.1630
69.Oxford University Press. Head-piece by Burghers of Oxford, designed for Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion.1702
70. Do.  do.  do.1702
71.Bowyer. Atkyn’s Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire. Head-piece signed J. L. Basket of fruit, spirals of flowers and foliage.1712
72.Printer unknown. The Compleat History of Cornwall, Part II., printed at Truro. Spirals of flowers and foliage, two eagles.1750
73.Crownfield, Cambridge. Fruit and flowers in basket, four birds and conventional ornament.c. 1730
74.Knapton. Works of Farquhar. Head-piece signed F. H. and M. H.1728
75.Printed for Dodsley. Irene, A Tragedy. Spirals of foliage, squirrel in centre.1749
76.Silver of Sandwich. Lovers’ Manual. Fleurons arranged in geometrical form.1753
77.Printer unknown. Ode of Horace.1719