The triall of witch-craft, shewing the true and right methode of the discouery: with a confutation of erroneous wayes / By Iohn Cotta, doctor in physicke.
John Cotta's 1616 London treatise on witchcraft, printed by George Purslowe for Samuel Rand, is aimed at learned readers and magistrates weighing how to test accusations of witchcraft. The four pictures here are decorative printers' ornaments: a frieze with grotesque figures and scrolling foliage, a central winged mask, and a historiated initial A framed by leafy creatures, useful for period headers, dividers and drop caps.
