TAIL-PIECES

78.Middleton. Statutes II. Henry VI. Long narrow architectural block, formerly De Worde’s.c. 1540
79.Kingston & Sutton. Missale ad usum Sarisburiensis. Design: human figure, sprays of flowers, animal and bird. Criblé. Probably French.1555
80.Redman. Year Book II. Henry VI. Seven lozenge ornaments.c. 1540
81.Oswen, Ipswich. Exhortation to the Sicke. Two figures with stars.1549
82.Berthelet. Castle of Health. Ornament on dark background from French sources.1539
83.Printer unknown. Treasury of Health. Flower and bird.1585
84.Redman. Year Book II. Henry VI. Half fleur-de-lys and half feathers divided by zigzag white lines.c. 1540
85.Denham. Holinshed, vol. iii., Chronicles of Ireland. Boy beating two drums.1579
86.Jugge. Book of Common Prayer. Elaborate fleuron border in four sections, showing three designs.1573
87.Griffith. Caveat or Warneing. Arabesque design.1567
88.Griffith. Caveat or Warneing. Virgin and child in circle surrounded by floral borders.1567
89.Wolfe. Sophocles, Antigone. A fleuron tail-piece.1581
90.Vautrollier. De Rep. Anglorum. Arabesque design. Single block.1579
91.E. Allde. Bodenham’s Garden of the Muses. Arabesque design with architectural detail.1610
92.W. W. for Cuthbert Burby. Love’s Labours Lost. Arabesque design. Single block.1598
93.E. Allde. Basilikon Doron. Fleuron ornament.1603
94.John Day. Ascham, Scholemaster. Circular arabesque design. Single block.1579
95.Islip. Wit’s Miserie. Square arabesque design. Single block.1596
96.An arabesque tail-piece from Shakespeare’s Pericles.c. 1615
97.Vautrollier. Ciceronis Epistolæ. Gorgon’s head.1579
98.Printer uncertain. Cambridge. Tail-piece of seven rows of fleurons arranged as reversed triangle. Reproduced by courtesy of Messrs Bowes & Bowes.c. 1700
99.Wolfe. Sophocles, Antigone. A fleuron tail-piece showing a different design from No. 89.1581
100.Printed for B. Lintott. Odes of Horace. Tail-piece to Book IV. Ornate design: cherubs holding birds, sprays of foliage.1719
101.Printed for Knapton. Works of Farquhar. Tail-piece of florid design, showing bird in centre flanked by baskets of flowers.1728
102.Tonson & Watts. Lucretius, De rerum natura. A specially designed tail-piece to Book IV.1713
103.Tonson & Watts. Lucretius, De rerum natura. A specially designed tail-piece to Dedication.1713
104.Crownfield, Cambridge. Bird with outstretched wings. Reproduced by courtesy of Messrs Bowes & Bowes of Cambridge.c. 1730
105.Clarendon Press, Oxford. Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion. Tail-piece designed and engraved by M. Burghers.1702
106.Clarendon Press, Oxford. Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion. Tail-piece designed and engraved by M. Burghers.1702
107.Welsh Bible. Architectural design with crowned rose and cherubs in centre.1620
108.Odes of Horace. Fountain and mermaids. Sprays of foliage.1743
109.Crownfield, Cambridge. Tail-piece. Two cornucopiæ 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.c. 1730
110.Printer unknown. Truro. History of Cornwall. Figure of Mercury in frame with conventional sprays of foliage and arch. Flanked with long-tailed birds holding flowers in their beaks.1750