Sylva sylvarvm; or, A naturall historie, in ten centuries
A 1628 natural history by Francis Bacon, edited by William Rawley, printed in England for a scholarly readership interested in the natural world. The pictures are repeated decorative headpieces: crowned emblems of the Tudor rose, thistle, fleur-de-lis and harp set in bands of ornamental strapwork, rendered in crisp black woodcut lines on cream paper, showing how heraldic motifs were arranged into a symmetrical border a designer could adapt.
