The raging Turke, or, Baiazet the second : a tragedie
A 1631 London tragedy, The raging Turke, or, Baiazet the Second, written by Thomas Goffe and printed by Augustine Matthewes for the bookseller Richard Meighen. The two pictures are small typographic ornaments: a large decorated initial T framed by scrollwork beneath the word SIR, and a heraldic shield of three boars' heads with a motto ribbon reading LIBE ET FORTITUDINE. A designer might take from them the dense, interlaced strapwork of early seventeenth-century letterpress and the crisp contrast of cut-block heraldry.
