Wit in a constable : a comedy written 1639

Glapthorne, Henry, Okes, John, active 1627-1644, printer, Constable, Francis, -1647, bookseller, Batten, David, binder, Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. ℗(James Orchard), ℗1820-1889, former owner, Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner · 1640 · London : Printed by Io. Okes, for F[rancis]. C[onstable]. and are to be sold at his shops in Kings-Street at the signe of the Goat, and in Westminster Hall · 2 pictures

Wit in a Constable is a 1640 London comedy by Henry Glapthorne, written in 1639, printed by John Okes for the bookseller Francis Constable and sold from his Kings-Street shop and Westminster Hall. The two pictures are close-up scans of letterpress type: a large capital W, I, T, I, N in heavy serif roman, and a historiated woodcut initial S beside italic text. A designer could take from them the contrast of a bold display capital with a decorated foliate initial and running text.

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