Resolves : A duple century
Felltham's Resolves, a 1631 London book of moral essays printed for the bookseller Henry Seile and aimed at general readers of conduct and ethics. Its pictures are small woodcut decorative initials and a headpiece, with strapwork, scrolls, and foliage cut in dense hatched black lines on cream paper, offering a designer ready models for ornamental capitals and border bands in early modern print style.













