The New Testament : translated into English out of the authorized Latin ... with annotations and other helpes by the English college of Rhemes
This is a 1621 Antwerp New Testament in English, translated by the English college at Rheims and printed by James Seldenfisch for a Catholic readership. The pictures are ornamental printers' decorations: woodcut strapwork borders, a corner piece and a dense arabesque panel, all in dark ink on warm cream paper. A designer could take from them the interlaced scroll patterns and symmetrical corner-and-border layouts of early seventeenth-century Flemish book ornament.








