A Treatise of the laws of the forest : wherein is declared not onely those laws as they are now in force, but also in the original and beginning of forests
A 1665 legal treatise by John Manwood, published by the Company of Stationers in England, setting out the laws of the royal forest for lawyers and forest officers. The three pictures are small woodcut ornament strips of stylised flowers, leaves and scrolling foliage in dense black-and-white cutting, plus a red wax seal of a standing robed figure with lettering around its rim. A designer could take the strip borders as ready-made repeating tendrils and the seal as a bold emblem shape.
