HEAD-PIECES
| 37. | Kingston & Sutton. Missale ad usum Sarisburiensis. Flowers and figures. | 1555 |
| 38. | Oswen. Exhortation to the Sicke. Triangular design with fox in centre. | 1548 |
| 39. | Printer unidentified. The Treasury of Health. Flowers and foliage. | 1585 |
| 40. | Denham. School of Skill. Conventional design: flowers. | 1581 |
| 41. | Denham. Footepath of Felicitie. Conventional flowers. | 1581 |
| 42. | Denham. Guide to Godlinesse. Conventional design, showing rose. | 1581 |
| 43. | Head-piece from Philip Sidney. Twisted ribbon design. | 1580–90 |
| 44. | Denham. Head-piece from Holinshed’s Chronicles, vol. i. Bear holding sprays. Men and dogs. Conventional foliage. | 1579 |
| 45. | Holinshed’s Chronicles of Ireland. Conventional sprays: satyrs, animals, insects, etc. | 1579 |
| 46. | Field. History of Guicciardini. Conventional design: sprays and flowers, two winged figures playing on flutes. | 1599 |
| 47. | Waldegrave. Basilikon Doron. Arabesque design. | 1599 |
| 48. | Bynneman. Morelius. Conventional design, with two archers. | 1583 |
| 49. | Vautrollier. De Rep. Anglorum. Head with cornucopia of fruit. | 1579 |
| 50. | Vautrollier. De Rep. Anglorum. Composite design: spirals resembling letter A. Boys with bowl of fruit and flowers, animals and grotesques. | 1579 |
| 51. | The Journall or Daily Register. Similar design to foregoing, but smaller. | 1601 |
| 52. | Eliots Court Press. Copy of a Letter. Composite design: spirals of foliage, grotesque fish, winged snakes, winged figures with javelins. | 1606 |
| 53. | Eliots Court Press. Spirals of foliage. National emblems: lion and unicorn. | 1606 |
| 54. | Eliots Court Press. National emblems, crowned and separate. | 1606 |
| 55. | Eliots Court Press. Fleur-de-lys with figures and scrolls. | 1606 |
| 56. | Eliots Court Press. Cherubs blowing horns, from which issue spirals of fruit and flowers. Copy of French block. | 1606 |
| 57. | Macham. Homer, Prince of Poets. Composite design: two cornucopiæ. National emblems: lion and unicorn. | 1610 |
| 58. | Printer not known. A Pilgrime’s Solace. Zig-zag ribbon, with national emblems. | 1612 |
| 59. | Haviland. Fruit and flowers issuing from a jar. | 1634 |
| 60. | Macham. Homer, Prince of Poets. Architectural, with royal arms. | 1610 |
| 61. | Macham. Homer, Prince of Poets. Composite design: spirals of fruit and flowers with insects. | 1610 |
| 62. | Macham. Homer, Prince of Poets. Composite design: four horsemen. | 1610 |
| 63. | Barker. Architectural, with royal arms. | c. 1620 |
| 64. | Printer unknown. Book of Prayers. Urns with flower ornaments. | 1662 |
| 65. | Printer unknown. Double row of national emblems and fleur-de-lys. | c. 1680 |
| 66. | For Busbie. O per se O. Fleurons arranged as headpiece. | 1612 |
| 67. | Printer unknown. Double row of acorns. | 1620 |
| 68. | Printer unknown. Double row of fleurons. | 1630 |
| 69. | Oxford University Press. Head-piece by Burghers of Oxford, designed for Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion. | 1702 |
| 70. | Do. do. do. | 1702 |
| 71. | Bowyer. Atkyn’s Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire. Head-piece signed J. L. Basket of fruit, spirals of flowers and foliage. | 1712 |
| 72. | Printer unknown. The Compleat History of Cornwall, Part II., printed at Truro. Spirals of flowers and foliage, two eagles. | 1750 |
| 73. | Crownfield, Cambridge. Fruit and flowers in basket, four birds and conventional ornament. | c. 1730 |
| 74. | Knapton. Works of Farquhar. Head-piece signed F. H. and M. H. | 1728 |
| 75. | Printed for Dodsley. Irene, A Tragedy. Spirals of foliage, squirrel in centre. | 1749 |
| 76. | Silver of Sandwich. Lovers’ Manual. Fleurons arranged in geometrical form. | 1753 |
| 77. | Printer unknown. Ode of Horace. | 1719 |
TAIL-PIECES
| 78. | Middleton. Statutes II. Henry VI. Long narrow architectural block, formerly De Worde’s. | c. 1540 |
| 79. | Kingston & Sutton. Missale ad usum Sarisburiensis. Design: human figure, sprays of flowers, animal and bird. Criblé. Probably French. | 1555 |
| 80. | Redman. Year Book II. Henry VI. Seven lozenge ornaments. | c. 1540 |
| 81. | Oswen, Ipswich. Exhortation to the Sicke. Two figures with stars. | 1549 |
| 82. | Berthelet. Castle of Health. Ornament on dark background from French sources. | 1539 |
| 83. | Printer unknown. Treasury of Health. Flower and bird. | 1585 |
| 84. | Redman. Year Book II. Henry VI. Half fleur-de-lys and half feathers divided by zigzag white lines. | c. 1540 |
| 85. | Denham. Holinshed, vol. iii., Chronicles of Ireland. Boy beating two drums. | 1579 |
| 86. | Jugge. Book of Common Prayer. Elaborate fleuron border in four sections, showing three designs. | 1573 |
| 87. | Griffith. Caveat or Warneing. Arabesque design. | 1567 |
| 88. | Griffith. Caveat or Warneing. Virgin and child in circle surrounded by floral borders. | 1567 |
| 89. | Wolfe. Sophocles, Antigone. A fleuron tail-piece. | 1581 |
| 90. | Vautrollier. De Rep. Anglorum. Arabesque design. Single block. | 1579 |
| 91. | E. Allde. Bodenham’s Garden of the Muses. Arabesque design with architectural detail. | 1610 |
| 92. | W. W. for Cuthbert Burby. Love’s Labours Lost. Arabesque design. Single block. | 1598 |
| 93. | E. Allde. Basilikon Doron. Fleuron ornament. | 1603 |
| 94. | John Day. Ascham, Scholemaster. Circular arabesque design. Single block. | 1579 |
| 95. | Islip. Wit’s Miserie. Square arabesque design. Single block. | 1596 |
| 96. | An arabesque tail-piece from Shakespeare’s Pericles. | c. 1615 |
| 97. | Vautrollier. Ciceronis Epistolæ. Gorgon’s head. | 1579 |
| 98. | Printer uncertain. Cambridge. Tail-piece of seven rows of fleurons arranged as reversed triangle. Reproduced by courtesy of Messrs Bowes & Bowes. | c. 1700 |
| 99. | Wolfe. Sophocles, Antigone. A fleuron tail-piece showing a different design from No. 89. | 1581 |
| 100. | Printed for B. Lintott. Odes of Horace. Tail-piece to Book IV. Ornate design: cherubs holding birds, sprays of foliage. | 1719 |
| 101. | Printed for Knapton. Works of Farquhar. Tail-piece of florid design, showing bird in centre flanked by baskets of flowers. | 1728 |
| 102. | Tonson & Watts. Lucretius, De rerum natura. A specially designed tail-piece to Book IV. | 1713 |
| 103. | Tonson & Watts. Lucretius, De rerum natura. A specially designed tail-piece to Dedication. | 1713 |
| 104. | Crownfield, Cambridge. Bird with outstretched wings. Reproduced by courtesy of Messrs Bowes & Bowes of Cambridge. | c. 1730 |
| 105. | Clarendon Press, Oxford. Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion. Tail-piece designed and engraved by M. Burghers. | 1702 |
| 106. | Clarendon Press, Oxford. Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion. Tail-piece designed and engraved by M. Burghers. | 1702 |
| 107. | Welsh Bible. Architectural design with crowned rose and cherubs in centre. | 1620 |
| 108. | Odes of Horace. Fountain and mermaids. Sprays of foliage. | 1743 |
| 109. | Crownfield, Cambridge. Tail-piece. Two cornucopiæ with fruit and flowers. Tied together with ribbon and with bunch of flowers suspended from them. Reproduced by courtesy of Messrs Bowes & Bowes of Cambridge. | c. 1730 |
| 110. | Printer unknown. Truro. History of Cornwall. Figure of Mercury in frame with conventional sprays of foliage and arch. Flanked with long-tailed birds holding flowers in their beaks. | 1750 |
ORNAMENTS
| 111. | Pynson & De Worde. Chain ornament. | 1500–30 |
| 112. | Pynson & De Worde. Three designs used to fill up spaces in the text. | 1500–30 |
| 113. | Printer unknown. Song of Solomon. Three acorns. | 1620 |
| 114. | Printer unknown. A Declaration of Favourable Dealing of Her Majestie’s Commission. Arabesque design. | 1583 |
| 115. | Printer unknown. History of London. | N.D. |
| 116. | Field. E. Nicholas, Apologia. Fifteen fleuron units and acorn arranged as reversed triangles. | 1649 |
| 117. | Grafton. Actes of Edward VI. Early form of fleuron arranged on either side of word “Finis.” | 1560–70 |
| 118. | Allde (Eliz.). Greene’s Euphues, His Censure to Philautus. Female head. Sprays of foliage. Woman’s head in centre. | 1634 |
| 119. | Printed for R. Dodsley. Irene: A Tragedy, by Saml. Johnson. Basket of flowers. Sprays of foliage. Two birds. Could be used as tail-piece if desired. | 1749 |
| 120. | For Stepneth & Redmer. Atheist’s Tragedie, by Cyril Tourneur. Small ornament. Conventional sprays, with head in centre. | 1611 |
| 121. | Lownes. Description of New England. Small ornament. Lion’s head in centre. Festoons of flowers. Mark at either end. | 1616 |
| 122. | Buck, Cambridge. Locustæ. Small ornament. Conventional sprays and flowers. | 1627 |
| 123. | Stafford, for John Wright. King Leir. Small ornament. Conventional sprays and flowers. Differing from preceding. | 1605 |
| 124. | Cotes, for Bellamie. Wm. Wood’s New England’s Prospect. Small ornament. Crowned rose. Conventional sprays. | 1634 |
| 125. | Jones. Gerald Malynes’ Center of Circle of Commerce. Small ornament. Fleur-de-lys centre. Conventional sprays. | 1623 |
| 126. | E. A., i.e. Edward Allde, for John Tap. Bodenham’s Garden of the Muses. Very beautiful arabesque ornament. Reproduced by kind permission of Messrs Maggs Bros. | 1610 |
| 127. | Adlard & Browne. A flower ornament of unusual design, reproduced from Luckombe’s History of Printing. | c. 1770 |
| 128. | Do. do. do. | |
| 129–134. | Caslon. Six of the border designs used on the first specimen sheet issued by this famous type-foundry. They were more delicate and graceful than those used in England by his predecessors and are still in vogue. Compare the modern specimens manufactured by the same firm. | 1734 |
| 135–148. | Baskerville. Fourteen single line ornaments and flowers designed by John Baskerville. Reproduced from John Baskerville by R. Straus and K. Dent, by kind permission of Mr R. Straus and the courtesy of the Cambridge University Press. | c. 1750 |
INITIALS
| 149. | T De Worde. The Golden Legend. Large ornamental letter of ecclesiastical design with decorative sprays. | 1493 |
| 150. | P Whitchurch. Great Bible. Black with white strap ornament. Bird in centre. With printer’s initials. | 1540 |
| 151. | S Redman. Statuta. In imitation of script. Probably of French origin. | 1540 |
| 152. | F Middleton. Year Book of Henry VI. | 1540 |
| 153. | H De Worde. Reproduced by kind permission from Mr Sayle’s article, Nov. 1902 (Bibliographical Society). | 1519 |
| 154. | Q Faques. Manuale Sarum. Reproduced by kind permission from Mr Sayle’s article, Nov. 1902 (Bibliographical Society). | 1530 |
| 155. | A Notary. Chronicles of England. Obtained from Bocard of Paris. | 1504 |
| 156. | H Pynson. Libello huic regio hæc insunt. White on black ground, criblé. | 1521 |
| 157. | P Notary. Golden Legend. Obtained from Bocard of Paris. Reproduced by kind permission from Mr Sayle’s article, Nov. 1902 (Bibliographical Society). | 1503 |
| 158. | T H. Middleton. Apostle series. | 1584 |
| 159. | F Barker. Prayer Book. Arabesque design with Walsingham Crest. | 1580 |
| 160. | T Barker. Prayer Book. Arabesque design with printer’s initials. | 1580 |
| 161. | F Eliots Court Press. Plutarch. Apostle series. Seated figure. | 1603 |
| 162. | V Redman. Year Books, Edward III. White on dead black ground. | 1540 |
| 163. | H Eliots Court Press. Plutarch. Apostle series. Figure with nimbus. Staff in left hand; book in right. | 1603 |
| 164. | S Berthelet. Bibl. Eliotæ. Classical. Two figures and satyr. | 1559 |
| 165. | H Printer unknown. Philip Sydney. Factotum. Arabesque design. | c. 1596 |
| 166. | W Waldegrave. Factotum from Basilikon Doron. Two figures plucking thistles. | 1599 |
| 167. | S Morley Canzonets. Pictorial. Previously in the hands of John Day. | 1600 |
| 168. | T Eliots Court Press. Especially used by Bradwood. Decorative sprays. | 1603–27 |
| 169. | T Denham. Footepathe to Felicitie. Conventional sprays. | 1577 |
| 170. | I Eliots Court Press. Especially used by Bradwood. Rose and thistle crowned. | 1603–27 |
| 171. | E Vautrollier. Ciceronis Epistolæ. Outline letter. Conventional sprays. | 1579 |
| 172. | D Barker. Prayer Book. Arabesque design. | 1580 |
| 173. | D Newberrie. Bullinger’s Sermons. Outline letter. Pictorial. Probably scene from Bible. | 1577 |
| 174. | S Siberch. Erasmus. De conscribendis epistolis. Reproduced by kind permission of Messrs Bowes & Bowes of Cambridge. | 1521 |
| 175. | C Day. Fox, Book of Martyrs. Outline letter. Conventional sprays. Bird with outstretched wings. Two grotesque figures. | 1562 |
| 176. | A Siberch. Erasmus. De conscribendis epistolis. Reproduced by kind permission of Messrs Bowes & Bowes of Cambridge. White on black. Ecclesiastical with decorative sprays. | 1521 |
MODERN WORK
| 177–187. | H. W. Caslon & Co., Ltd. Old English borders. | 18th century |
| 188. | The Morland Press, Ltd. Border design by Claud Lovat Fraser. Reproduced from the title-page re-arranged by Haldane Macfall for The Lovat Book. | 1890–1921 |
| 189. | The Morland Press, Ltd. Tail-piece by Frank Brangwyn, R.A., representing an initial F rising from tulip design. | c. 1920 |
| 190. | The Morland Press, Ltd. Head-piece basket of flowers from design by Frank Brangwyn, R.A. | c. 1920 |
| 191. | The Morland Press, Ltd. Initials M. P. Design by Ludovic Rodo. | c. 1920 |
| 192–197. | Chiswick Press. Six head-pieces. Conventional designs. | 1830–1923 |
| 198–200. | Chiswick Press. Three head-pieces, floral. | 1830–1923 |
| 201–202. | Chiswick Press. Two tail-pieces. | 1830–1923 |
| 203–214. | Chiswick Press. Twelve initials. Various designs. | 1830–1923 |
| 215. | University Press, Oxford. Phœnix ornament reproduced from Hart’s Century of Typography. | 17th century |
| 216. | University Press, Oxford. B. Blooming initial reproduced from Hart’s Century of Typography. | 17th century |
| 217. | University Press, Oxford. I. Initial reproduced from Hart’s Century of Typography. | 17th century |
| 218. | University Press, Oxford. Head-piece reproduced from Hart’s Century of Typography. | 17th century |
| 219. | P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd. Border design. | 1920 |
| 220. | Do. do. do. | 1920 |
| 221. | University Press, Oxford. Circular ornament, floral design. | 18th century |
| 222. | P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd. Border design, same as 220. | 18th century |
| 223. | University Press, Oxford. Fleuron tail-piece. | 18th century |
| 224. | University Press, Oxford. Fleuron tail-piece of a different design. | 18th century |
| 225. | P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd. Bold foliage design for border. | 1920 |
| 226. | P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd. B. White initial on black background. | 1920 |
| 227. | P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd. T. White initial with foliage on black background. | 1920 |
| 228. | P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd. Bold foliage design for border same as 225. | 1920 |
| 229. | P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd. Head-piece, spirals of foliage. White on black ground. | 1920 |
| 230. | R. & R. Clark, Ltd., Edinburgh. Decorative head-piece designed by Walter Crane. | 1875 |
| 231. | P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd. Tail-piece, triangular, white on black ground. | 1920 |
| 232. | Pelican Press. Border design with centre ornament. Copy of early arabesque design. | 1920 |
| 233–240. | Pelican Press. English flowers, seven designs. | 1920 |
| 241. | Pelican Press. Border design after Geoffrey Tory. | 1923 |
| 242. | Kelmscott Press. Design from Godefroy of Boulogne. | 1893 |
| 243–251. | Curwen Press. Nine decorations designed by Claud Lovat Fraser. | 1920 |
| 252–260. | Curwen Press. Nine flowers and decorations designed by Percy J. Smith. | 1922 |
| 261–273. | Stephenson, Blake & Co., Ltd. Fourteen designs of delicate flower borders, ornaments, and the famous rose border. | c. 1790 |
| 274–284. | Stephenson, Blake & Co., Ltd. Various designs for borders, and initial S and two fine tail-pieces designed and executed by Bewick. | c. 1780 |