Parasitaster, or, The fawne : as it hath been diuers times presented at the Blacke Friars, by the Children of the Queenes Maiesties Reuels, and since at Powles
A 1606 London quarto printed by Thomas Purfoot for the bookseller William Cotton, being John Marston's comedy Parasitaster, or The Fawne, first staged by the Children of the Queen's Revels at Blackfriars and later at Paul's. The single picture is a printer's ornament, not an illustration: a central face in a plumed headdress flanked by two squirrels perched on scrolling foliate volutes. A designer might take from it the symmetrical frame of scrolls, leaves and animals that suits a decorative border or title-page device.
