The English gentleman; ; and The English gentlewoman: : both in one volume couched, and in one modell portrayed: to the living glory of their sexe, the lasting story of their worth. Being presented to present times for ornaments; commended to posterity for presidents. With A ladies love-lecture and a supplement lately annexed, and entituled The turtles triumph ...
Richard Brathwaite's 1641 conduct book, printed in London by John Dawson, offers courtesy and manners advice for gentlemen and gentlewomen of its era. The pictures are woodcut decorative headpieces and initials: a scrolling foliate strapwork band with a central mask figure, and historiated initials with a kneeling figure and flowering vines, useful for period ornament and framing devices.
