A true & faithful relation of what passed for many yeers between Dr. John Dee ... and some spirits : tending (had it succeeded) to a general alteration of most states and kingdomes in the world : his private conferences with Rodolphe Emperor of Germany, Stephen K. of Poland, and divers other princes about it : the particulars of his cause, as it was agitated in the Emperors court, by the Pope's intervention : his banishment and restoration in part : as also the letters of sundry great men and princes (some whereof were present at some of these conferences and apparitions of spirits) to the said D. Dee : out of the original copy, written with Dr. Dees own hand, kept in the library of Sir Tho. Cotton ... : with a preface confirming the reality (as to the point of spirits) of this relation, and shewing the several good uses that a sober Christian may make of all
A 1659 London account, printed by D. Maxwell for T. Garthwait and edited by Meric Casaubon, recounting John Dee's conferences with spirits and his dealings with Emperor Rudolf II and King Stephen Batory of Poland for a learned Christian readership. The pictures are small woodcut decorative initials and a horizontal ornamental border, with dense interlaced foliage, scrollwork, flowers, and heraldic-style thistles and roses that a designer could adapt for lettering, borders, and ornamental capitals.
