English printers' ornaments

A

• Acorn ornament, 60
• Aldus, 34, 113
• Allde, Eliz., 86
• Ames collection of title-pages, 55
• Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire, 77
• Antigone, Sophocles, tail-piece, 57
• Antiquities of Warwickshire, 27
• ‘Apostle’ alphabet, 96, 97
• Arundel, Earl of, 21
• Ashendene Press, 110
• Atheist’s Tragedy, 86

B

• Bagford collection of title-pages, 55
• Barbier, J., 37
• Barker, R., 73
• Barnes, Joseph, 25
• Baskerville, J., 63
• Basle, Material obtained from, 22
• Beale, J., 50
• Berthelet, T., 13, 23, 46
• Initials used by, 93
• Bewick, T., 29
• Bibliotheca Eliotæ, 93
• Blake, Garnett & Co., 113
• Bocard, J., Initials of, 94
• Bodoni Press, 111
• Bollifant, Ed., 25
• Borrowings by English printers, 90
• Bourne’s History of Newcastle, 79
• Bowes, R., Catalogue of Books printed at Cambridge, 79
• Bowyer, Wm., 29, 61, 77
• Bradwood, M., 25, 72
• Brangwyn, F., 114
• Briefe Treatise of Testaments and Wills, 85
• Bry, T. de, 113
• Buck, T., 52
• Buck, T. & J., 97
• Bullock, H., 26
• Burghers, M., Influence of, 29
• Head and tail pieces designed by, 74, 75
• Initials designed by, 97
• Burghers, M., 51, 77
• Burleigh family crest as ornament, 85
• Burne-Jones, Sir E., 113
• Burns, Poems, Border to, 51
• Butsch’s Bücher Ornamentik, 90
• Bynneman, H., 24, 25, 48, 70, 73, 84, 96

C

• Cambridge Univ. Press, 116
• Carmelianus, Petrus, 43
• Caslon, W., 61, 115
• Caslon foundry, modern history, 111
• Casting-house, 11
• Catherine of Siena, 94
• Caveat or Warneing, etc., tail-piece described, 68
• Caxton, 18, 19, 20, 21, 35, 36, 56
• Center of the Circle of Commerce, 86
• Change in character of head and tail pieces, 76
• Chaucer’s Works, 33
• Chrysostum, 25
• Ciceronis, Epistolæ, 69
• Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion, 75
• Clark, R. & R., 113
• Clavis Apocalyptica, Border to, 52
• Classical designs of initials, 93
• Combination of fleuron and decorative block, 50
• Commentary, Lathbury’s, 34
• Complete History of Cornwall, 80
• Copland, R., 20
• Copy of a Letter, etc., 72, 73
• Copyists, Work of, 27
• Cosmographical Glasse, 57, 93
• Cowley, Dr, 38
• Crane, W., 113
• Creede, T., 48
• Crown ornament, 60
• Crownfield, C., 79
• Curious head-piece design, 73
• Curwen Press, 114

D

• Daniel, R., 52
• Day, J., 23, 93, 94
• De Anima, Aristotle’s, 34
• Decorative blocks, date of introduction, 67
• Eighteenth century, 28
• used by Eliots Court printers, 71
• Decorative head and tail pieces, 69
• Denham, H., 24, 25
• Borders used by, 48
• Initials used by, 96
• De Rep. Anglorum, 69
• Description of New England, 86
• Diary of Lady Willoughby, 105, 112
• Dionysius, Border in, 52
• Doves Press, 110
• Duff, E. G., quoted, 18, 47, 55
• Du Pré, 17, 34
• Dutch ornaments in English books, 27

E

• Early English printers of fifteenth century, 18
• Early Newcastle typography, 80
• Early printers, Methods of, 4, 5
• Early Venetian Printing, 90
• East, T., 48
• Ecclesiastical character of first initials, 89
• Edward IV., patron of Caxton, 21
• Eliots Court Press, 25, 28, 70, 85, 86
• Eliots Court printers, Initials of, 91, 96
• Elizabeth, Queen, 24
• English Illustrated Magazine, 113
• Engraved borders to Bibles, 22
• Engraved title-pages, 49
• Enterlude called Lusty Juventus, 59
• Euphues, his Censure to Philautus, 86
• Exhibition of twentieth century books, 110
• Exposition on Epistle to Romans, 73

F

• Factotums, 98, 99
• Faques, Border used by, 43, 45, 59, 92
• Fenton, G., 71
• Field, R., 71
• Fifteen Oes, 35, 39
• Fior de Virtu, 21
• Fletcher, M., 73
• Fleuron, 6, 7, 26 et passim
• borders, 47
• Date of introduction of, 57
• as head and tail piece, 63
• its use for factotums, 100
• Variations of, 58, 59
• Fleur-de-lys ornament, 60
• Footepath to Felicitie, 48, 96
• Foreign border-pieces, 22
• Foxe, J., Book of Martyrs, 95
• France, Use of flowers in, 9
• Fraser, C. L., 114
• Fuller’s Church History, 97

G

• Garden of the Muses, 57
• Garlandea, J. de, 83
• Germany, Use of flowers in, 9
• Gibson, Robert, 23
• Goodly Garland, Borders in, 45
• Grafton, R., 23
• Gratulationis Valdinensis, 85
• Gray’s Elegy, Border to, 51
• Greate Herball, 46
• Greg, Dr W. W., 13
• Griffin, Edw. (I.), 25
• Griffin, Edw. (II.), 25, 72
• Grotesque initials, 94
• Grover, J., 27

H

• H. F., designer of ornaments, 78
• Hales, Alex. of, 34
• Hart, H., 115
• Hatfield, A., 25
• Hatton, Sir C., 84
• Haviland, John, 25
• Henry VII., King, 21
• Henry VIII., King, 21
• Heraldic and personal initials, 94
• Hickscorner, 43
• History of Guicciardini, 71
• History of Origin and Progress of Printing, 7
• History of the Rebellion, 97
• Holbein, 113
• Holinshed’s Chronicles, 70, 71
• Hollar, W., 27
• Homer, Workes, 71
• Hornby, St John, 110
• Housman, L., 113
• Hughes, A. P., 113
• Huvin, J., of Rouen, 37
• Hypnerotomachia, 21

I

• Illuminator, his advantage over printer, 17
• Improvement in decoration of printed books, 17
• Initial letters, their value as ornaments, 89
• Initials in Bibles and Books of Common Prayer, 92
• Islip, A., 73

J

• Jackson, wood-engraver, 8
• Jennings, Dr Oscar, 91
• Jenson, N., 17, 34
• Jewell, B., Works, 72
• Johnson, Dr, and Goldsmith, 116, 117
• Jones, W., 86
• Jugge, R., 28, 57, 96

K

• Kelmscott Press, 106–110
• King Lear, 86
• Kingston, F., 86
• Kingston and Sutton, 68
• Kyrforth, C., 25

L

• Lair, see Siberch
• Leeu, G., 17
• Legat, J., 26
• Legenda Aurea, 40, 41, 42
• Initial from, 92
• Leicester, Earl of, Arms of, 94
• Leicester family, Crest of, 85
• Lettou and Machlinia, 19
• Libellus de Conscribendis, 95
• Liber precum publicarum, 60
• Longman, T., 111
• Lownes, H., 24, 73, 86
• Lownes, R., 73
• Lozenge ornament, First use of, 59
• Luckombe, 7, 8, 9
• Lucretius, De rerum natura, 77
• Lyttleton’s Tenures, 47

M

• M. M., designer of ornaments, 78
• Machlinia, Border used by, 35
• McKerrow, R. B., on ornamental device, 13, 44, 46
• McRae, J. F., 61, 111
• Maltese cross as ornament, 22
• Malynes, G., 86
• Manuscripts, Decoration of, 3, 4
• Margaret, Duchess of Richmond, 21
• Mer des Hystoires, 21
• Miscellaneous ornaments, 83
• Missal, Border to Morton’s, 38
• Modus Tenendi, 47
• Monasticon Anglicanum, 26
• Monomachie of Motives, 48
• Montaigne, 72
• Morland Press, 114
• Morris, William, and the Kelmscott Press, 106–110
• Morton, Cardinal John, 21, 37, 38
• Morton Missal, Initials from, 92
• Moxon, Joseph, 27
• Multorum Vocabulorum, 83

N

• Newberrie, R., 93
• Newe Booke—An Exhortation, etc., 68
• Newton, N., 25
• New World of Words, 72
• Norton, J., 72
• Notary, J., 22
• Borders used by, 37, 40, 41, 42
• Initials of, 94

O

• Odd blocks used for head and tail pieces, 67
• Odes of Horace, 79
• Old English Letter Foundries, 24
• Orcharde of Syon, 46
• Ornaments, Definition of, 12
• in Caslon’s specimen sheets, 61
• Os, G. van, 22, 94
• Oswen, John, 68
• Borders used by, 47
• Oxford University Press, 25, 115

P

• Paragraph marks, 4, 22
• Paragraph ornaments, 6, 83, 84
• Parker, Archbishop, 24, 94
• Parr, Rev. E., 73
• Pelican Press, 114
• Philomythie, Border in, 49
• Pictures, ornamental blocks so described, 11
• Pigouchet, 17, 34
• Pilgrimes Solace, 74
• Pollard, Prof. A. W., 55, 91, 97
• Poverty of ornament in sixteenth century English books, Reasons for, 18, 19, 20, 21
• Printers’ and Publishers’ Devices, 13, 85
• Purslowe, G., 25, 73
• Pynson, R., 19, 35, 37, 38, 43, 56, 59, 61, 83, 94, 95

Q

• Quidam, 21

R

• Ratdolt, E., 17, 34, 114
• Redman, R., 59, 84
• Initial of, 95
• Redmer, R., 86
• Reed, T. B., 24
• Reformation, its effect on book decoration, 22
• Reynes, John, Initial of, 94
• Ribbon ornament, 60
• Baskerville’s, 64
• Rivers, Earl, 21
• Rood, T., 20, 34, 38
• Rose ornament, 60
• Royal Arms as ornament, 85

S

• St Albans Chronicle, 40, 41, 42, 43
• Sallust, Border to, 45
• Sanderson, Cobden, 110
• Sarum Missal, 68
• Saxon type cut by J. Day, 24
• Sayle, C., 24, 55, 91, 97
• Scolar, John, 25
• Seres, W., 23
• Sermon preached at Stafford, 63
• Seven Sorrows that Women have, etc., 20, 21
• Shanks, Messrs, 114
• Short, P., 24
• Shyp of Folys, Borders in, 44, 45
• Siberch, John, 26
• Border used by, 51
• Initials used by, 93, 95
• Siegburg, see Siberch
• Silver, S., of Sandwich, 63
• Small ornaments of the eighteenth century, 62, 63
• Smith, P. J., 91, 114
• Smith, T. W., 112
• Stafford, S., 73
• Star ornament, 60
• Statutes 7th Henry VI., 67
• Statutes 19th Henry VII., 43
• Stephenson, Blake & Co., Ltd., 113
• Stepneth, 86
• Stokes, M., 113
• Sun Printing Office, 11
• Sylvius, Anton, 24, 93

T

• Tail-piece in 1679 Herodotus, 27
• Thistle ornament, 60
• Thomas, T., 26
• Thomson, J., Poem on Liberty, 78
• Tonson, J., and J. Watts, 77
• Tory, G., 114
• Tottell, R., 23
• Treatise made by Athanasius, 57
• Treveris, P., 46
• Two Centuries of Type-founding, 61, 111
• Type-founders in England, 27

U

• Urn ornament, 60

V

• Vautrollier, 60, 69, 84
• Initials used by, 95
• Venetian printers, 33
• Vérard, A., 89
• Vostre, 34

W

• Waldegrave, 99
• Walker, Emery, 110, 113
• Walsingham, F., Crest and Arms of, 95
• Watts, John, 61
• Whitchurch, Ed., 23, 94
• White, John, 79
• White Wolf, 49
• Whittingham, C., the elder and younger, 103, 104, 111
• Windet, John, 85
• Window frame borders, 46
• Wolfe, R., 23, 93, 96
• Woodcut borders, seventeenth century, 26
• Worde, W. de, 19, 37, 39, 43, 56, 59, 68, 94
• Works of George Farquhar, 78
• Works of Sir W. Temple, 78
• Wyer, Robert, 68

Y

• Year Books of Edward III., Border in, 44
• Year Book, 11th Henry VI., 59
• Youth’s Instructor, Border in, 50