Revelation examined with candour, or, A fair enquiry into the sense and use of the several revelations expresly declared, or sufficiently implied, to be given to mankind from the creation, as they are found in the Bible
A 1745 London theological treatise by Patrick Delany, printed by John and James Rivington, examining the Bible's revelations for a learned general readership. Its pictures are small decorative headpieces and tailpieces made of ornamental woodcut borders: a cherub above a cartouche with a letter A, a vase of flowers flanked by an eagle, a bird-supported urn, and a scrolled central medallion. A designer could take from them the dense, symmetrical eighteenth-century ornament suited to classical revival borders and monograms.
