A king, and no king : acted at the Blacke-Fryars, by His Maiesties Seruants
A King, and no King is a 1631 London play by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, printed by Augustine Mathewes for the bookseller Richard Hawkins and sold from his Chancery Lane shop, as performed by the King's Men at the Blackfriars. The picture is the ornate title-page head of the printed edition, with a central face flanked by scrolling foliage, a bird, and small animals above large capitals. A designer might take from it the dense strapwork and grotesque ornament typical of early seventeenth-century English print, useful for framing headings or decorative borders.
