The historie of the reigne of King Henry the Seventh ... Whereunto is now added a very usefull and necessary table
A 1641 London printing of Francis Bacon's history of King Henry VII, issued by the publisher R. Meighen for an English readership of readers and collectors of history. The pictures are early modern woodcut printer's ornaments: a dense decorative panel, a strip with a winged figure, a hatched foliate initial I, and a historiated initial A with grotesque figures and a book. A designer might take from them the layered interlace, hatched shading and foliate vocabulary of seventeenth-century English type ornament.
