The Sacred theory of the earth : containing an account of the original of the earth and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the consumation of all things
Thomas Burnet's 1719 London cosmology treatise, printed for John Hooke, an early-eighteenth-century work on the creation and the earth's changes, aimed at educated readers. The four pictures are small woodcut headpieces and ornaments: a bust of a woman in a heart-shaped foliate cartouche repeated twice, a flower-filled rectangular frame with scrolls, and a crowned bird with interlaced strapwork. A designer could take the symmetrical scrollwork and compact ornamental framing as models for borders and vignettes.
