Miscellany poems
A 1684 London miscellany of verse by John Dryden, published by J. Tonson and held by the California Digital Library, shows decorative typographic ornaments rather than narrative scenes. The pictures are woodcut initial letters, a strapwork tailpiece with eagles, and a laurel and lyre emblem, all built from dense scrolling foliage and cherubs that a designer could borrow for historic letterforms, border bands, or emblematic vignettes.
