Aurora : containing the first fancies of the authors youth

Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of, 1567 or 1568-1640, Field, Richard, -1624, printer, Blount, Edward, active 1588-1632, bookseller, Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner · 1604 · London : Printed by Richard Field for Edward Blount · 2 pictures

Aurora is a 1604 London book of poems by William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, printed by Richard Field for the bookseller Edward Blount. Its two pictures are small woodcut ornaments: an oval frame with an anchor, a cross and the word ANCHORA SPEI, and a central female mask flanked by fruit-laden cornucopias with feathered tops. A designer could take from them a model for compact emblematic borders, cartouches and grotesque-style central motifs.

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