The essaies of Sr. Francis Bacon ... His religious meditations. Places of perswasion and disswasion. Seene and allowed
A 1613 London printing of Francis Bacon's essays, issued by the publisher I. Iaggard and held by the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, with the pictures being decorative woodcut initials for the opening letter. The four shown are square letter T and I blocks: two framed with paired putti or figures flanking a tall stem, one with stylised scrolls and foliage, and one with a rosette and flower pattern around a central letter. A designer could take from them the compact, symmetrical framing of Jacobean type ornament, useful for drop caps and borders.
