Loves garland, or, Posies for rings, hand-kerchers, & gloves and such pretty tokens that lovers send their loves. A reprint. Whereunto is added a collection of posie mottoes ... entitled, Ye garland of ye Sette of odd volumes. To which is prefixed an introduction, in which some trite things are said concerning the efforts of the early alchemists to transmute the baser metals into gold ... / by James Roberts Brown.
A reprint issued in London in 1883 by James Roberts Brown, a bibliophile's collection of Elizabethan-style posy mottoes for rings, handkerchiefs and gloves, prefaced by an essay on early alchemy. The pictures are small black-ink printed ornaments: a diamond-and-foliage border, laurel wreaths with ribbon banners, a lion mask among scrolls, and a bearded face in a roundel. A designer could draw on their compact, reusable decorative units, such as wreath frames, scroll cartouches and framed medallion faces, for vintage labels and borders.
