The magnificent entertainment : giuen to King Iames, Queene Anne his wife, and Henry Frederick the prince, vpon the day of his Maiesties tryumphant passage (from the Tower) through his honourable citie (and chamber) of London, being the 15. of March 1603 : as well by the English as by the strangers, vvith the speeches and songes, deliuered in the seuerall pageants
The Magnificent Entertainment is a 1604 London printed account of King James I's entry pageants, written by Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton and printed by T.C. for Thomas Man the younger for readers interested in royal ceremony. Its pictures are small black-and-white woodcut ornaments: a paired decorative panel, a large decorated initial B, a crowned floral border strip, and a grotesque mask with foliage, showing how early printers built ornament from scrolls, strapwork, flowers and faces that a designer could adapt for headers, initials and borders.
