Much adoe about nothing : as it hath been sundrie times publikely acted by the right honourable, the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants.
Much Ado About Nothing is a 1600 quarto of Shakespeare's play, printed in London by V.S. for Andrew Wise and William Aspley, and later owned by George Steevens and held in the Boston Public Library's Barton Collection. The pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: a strapwork border strip, a foliate band, a grotesque mask in a shield, and a decorated initial letter. A designer could take from them the dense, hatched linework and symmetrical scrollwork of Elizabethan print.
