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English printers' ornaments

Chapter 23: Initials
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An illustrated study traces the introduction and development of decorative elements used by English printers from the fifteenth century through the nineteenth and into modern practice. It defines printers' ornaments—head and tail pieces, initial letters, borders, and decorative blocks—distinguishes them from printers' devices, and follows their origins in manuscript illumination, early adoption on title-pages and first pages, and gradual growth into complex borders and small ornaments. Organized by topic, the text surveys notable English craftsmen, catalogs representative examples, and concludes with a chapter on contemporary presswork accompanied by plates and a descriptive catalogue.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Borders

APHTHONII SOPHISTAE
PRAE EXERCITAMENTA
INTERPRETE
VIRO DOCTISSIMO.

IMPRESSA Londini per Richardum
Pynson regiū impressorem
cum priuilegio a rege indulto/
ne quis nunc in regno
Angliæ imprimat/
aut alíbí impressum/
importatūue in eo
dē regno Anglie
vendat.

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re mei dū tēpus est miserendi ne perdas
me ī tēpore tui tremē]di iudicii/ O bone
ihesu si merui miser prtōr de vera tua iusticia
penā eternā [per] pctīs meis grauissimis
Adhuc apello gfisus de tua iusticia
vera ad tuā mīam ineffabilē/ Utiqz misereberis
mei ut pi[us] pater et misericorsdn̄s/
O bone ihesu que enī vtilitas ī sāguine
meo dū descēdero in corruptionē
eternā Nō enī mortui laudabūt te/ neqzoēs
qui descendūt in infernū O misericordissīe
ihesu miserere mei O dulcissime
ihesu libera me O püssie ihesu [pro]picius
esto michi pctōri/ O ihesu admitte
me miserū pctōrm̄ inter numerū electo[rum]
tuo[rum] O jhesu salus in te sperantiū O
jhesu salus in te credȳriū miserere mei
dulcis remissio oīm pctō[rum] meorum
O ihesu fili [vir]ginis marie insūde
in me gr̄am tuā sapienciā caritatē castitatē
& hūilitatē ac etiā in oībz aduersitatibus
meis pacienciā scām vt possi te [per]

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¶ Thys Emprynted
at temple barre
be me: Julyan
Notary Dwellynge
in saynt clemētys
parysshe.

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¶ Petri Carmeliani Carmen.
Anglia perpetuos: tibi darrola rubra triūphos.
Perpetuum nomen: perpetuumq[ue] decus.
Her tua Celaceis: redolēs rosa crescit in hortis.
Itoq[ue] aquuam lignis: iungit vtranq[ue] suis.
Septimus hēricus: sapiēs rex Regula morum.
Celeste ingenium: cum probitate tenens.
Ad tantos solus: vigilans ie verit honores.
Ergo abs te debet: iure volente coli.

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Nychodemus gospell

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¶ Skelton Poeta.

Eterno mantura die dumlidera fulgent
Equora dumq; tument hec lainea nostra virebit.
Hinc nostrum celebre et nomē referetur ad astra.
Vndiq; Skeltonis memorabitur altera donis.

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R F

Richard Fakes

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Head-Pieces

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Tail-Pieces

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MBurg. sculp.

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Ornaments

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FINIS

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THE
GARDEN
OF THE
Muses.

Quem reserent Musa vtuet dum robor & tellus,
Dum cœlum stellas, dum vehet amnis aquas.

Printed at London by E. A. for Iohn Tap, and are
to be sold at his shop at Saint Magnus
corner. 1610.

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Ornament 1

Ornament 2

Ornament 3

Ornament 4

Ornament 5

Ornament 6

Ornament 7

Ornament 8

Ornament 9

Ornament 10

Ornament 11

Ornament 12

Ornament 13

Ornament 14

135–148

Initials

T

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P P

E.W

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S

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F

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H

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Q

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H

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H

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P

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T

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F

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T

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F

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V

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H

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S

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H

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W

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S

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T

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T

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I

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E

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D

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D

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S

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C

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A

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Modern Work

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Old English Borders from the Foundry of Messrs H. W. Caslon & Co., Ltd.

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Old English Borders from the Foundry of Messrs H. W. Caslon & Co., Ltd.

DESIGNS BY
CLAUD
LOVAT FRASER
[1890–1921]

THE MORLAND PRESS
190 Ebury Street
London SW 1

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A Border from The Morland Press, Ltd.

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Ornaments from The Morland Press, Ltd.

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Head-pieces from The Chiswick Press

(Messrs Charles Whittingham & Griggs Ltd.)

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Head and Tail Pieces from The Chiswick Press.

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C

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O

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S

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P

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Z

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Y

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M

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L

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H

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Initials from The Chiswick Press.

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Ornaments from The University Press, Oxford.

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Designs from the Foundry of Messrs P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd. (219, 220, 222), and from The University Press, Oxford (221, 223, 224).

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Designs from the Foundry of Messrs P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd.

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Messrs P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd.

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Messrs R. & R. Clark, Ltd., Edinburgh.

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Messrs P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd.

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Ornamental Border from The Pelican Press.

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Designs from The Pelican Press.

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A Border from The Pelican Press.

eche other lettres and messages for taccorde to goo
to gydre, apoynted the tyme of departyng, and of
the waye that they sholde holde.

AND whan Marche was come, ye sholde
haue seen horses arrayed, with sommyers,
palfroyes, and stedes, tentes
and pauyllons, and to make armures.
Ye maye wel knowe that there was
moche to doo of many thynges, ffor
the barons were acorded that they shold not goo
alle to gydre, ffor no contre myght suffyse ne fynde
that which shold be nedeful for them, ffor whiche
cause alle the hoostes neuyr assembled, as ye shal
here, tyl they cam vnto the cyte of Ntycene. The
mene peple charged them self not moche with tentes
ne armures, ffor they myght not bere it, & therfor
euery man garnysshid hym aftir that he was with

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A Design from The Kelmscott Press. Reproduced by kind permission of the Trustees from a block by Emery Walker, Ltd.