A consolation for our grammar schooles: or, A faithfull and most comfortable incouragement, for laying of a sure foundation of all good learning in our schooles, and for prosperous building thereupon. : More specially for all those of the inferiour sort, and all ruder countries and places; namely, for Ireland, Wales, Virginia, with the Sommer Ilands, and for their more speedie attaining of our English tongue by the same labour, that all may speake one and the same language. And withall, for the helping of all such as are desirous speedilie to recouer that which they had formerlie got in the grammar schooles; and to proceed aright therein, for the perpetuall benefits of these our nations, and of the churches of Christ
John Brinsley's 1622 treatise on grammar-school education, printed in London by Richard Field for Thomas Man, was aimed at schoolmasters and learners in Ireland, Wales and the English colonies in Virginia and Bermuda. Its pictures are printed ornamental borders and a bookplate: the borders are dense, symmetrical strapwork of leafy scrolls and stylised birds in dark ink, a pattern source for repeat-based surface design and historical ornament.
