The tragedy of Mustapha

Greville, Fulke, Baron Brooke, 1554-1628, Windet, John, -1610, printer, Butter, Nathaniel, -1664, bookseller, Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner · 1609 · London : Printed [by John Windet] for Nathaniel Butter · 1 picture

A 1609 London tragedy by Fulke Greville, Baron Brooke, printed by John Windet for the bookseller Nathaniel Butter, and held by the Boston Public Library. The picture is an ornamental woodcut title border, probably a printer's device, framing a central fleur-de-lis motif with grotesque masks and scrolling foliage. A designer could take from it the dense, symmetrical strapwork and vine-scroll vocabulary of early modern printers' ornament.

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