Miscellany poems
A 1684 London miscellany of poems by John Dryden, published by J. Tonson, its pages decorated with printed ornaments rather than narrative scenes. The four pictures are woodcut-style headpieces and initials: scrolling acanthus and flowers, a halo-topped figure with crossed branches, and historiated letters S and A with cherubs and foliage. A designer could draw on the dense leaf scrolls and cherub-filled capitals for period borders and monogram work.
