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, with the speeches and songes, deliuered in the seuerall pageants
The Magnificent Entertainment is a 1604 London pageant book by Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, printed by Thomas Creede and Humphrey Lownes for Thomas Man the younger, recording King James's 1603 entry into London for an audience of readers. The pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, a bold T and B framed in dense foliage and scrolls, plus a later eighteenth-century armorial bookplate on marbled endpaper. A designer could take from them the interlocking strapwork, leafy borders and high-contrast black-line woodcut lettering of Jacobean print.
