The art of contentment
A devotional treatise on contentment by Richard Allestree, printed at Oxford in 1675 for a general readership of Christian readers. The pictures are small printed ornaments: a wood-cut floral border strip repeated twice, a large acanthus-leaf initial G, and a fleuron-topped initial H with italic text beside it. A designer could draw on the scrolling foliage, the flowing acanthus letterform and the compact flower-and-stem vignette as period type decoration.
