Love in it's extasie, or, The large prerogative : a kind of royall pastorall

Peaps, William, Wilson, William, active 1640-1665, printer, Meighen, Mercy, bookseller, Bedell, Gabriel, -1668, bookseller, Collins, Thomas, active 1650-1682, bookseller, Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner · 1649 · London : Printed by W. Wilson for Mercy Meighen, Gabriell Bedell, and Thomas Collins, and are to be sold at their shop at Middle Temple gate · 3 pictures

A 1649 London pastoral play printed by W. Wilson for the booksellers Mercy Meighen, Gabriel Bedell and Thomas Collins, sold at Middle Temple gate. Its pictures are small printed type ornaments: a large decorated initial letter framed by leafy scrolls, a strip of interlaced foliage and grotesque figures, and a decorative capital Y beside a speaker tag and lines of text. A designer could draw on these seventeenth-century letterforms, scroll borders and historiated initials for period-style headers and drop caps.

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