The compleat gentleman : fashioning him absolute in the most necessary and commendable qualities, concerning mind, or body, that may be required in a person of honor. To which is added the gentlemans exercise or, an exquisite practise, as well for drawing all manner of beasts, as for making colours, to be used in painting, limming, &c
Henry Peacham's The Compleat Gentleman, published in 1661 and held by Heidelberg University Library, is a courtesy manual addressed to men of rank on education, conduct and the gentleman's arts. Its pictures are small woodcut heraldic shields, one per frame, with bold black hatching, simple charges and crowns, offering a designer a clear vocabulary of graphic emblems built from line, pattern and symmetry.
