[A collection of entrees : of declarations, barres, replications, reioinders, issues, verdits, judgements, executions, proces, continuances, essoines and diuers other matters : newly amended and much enlarged with many good presidents of latter time ... : and first an epistle, with certaine instructions necessary to be read for the redy finding of the matters in this booke]
A 1596 London legal handbook compiled by William Rastell, a sixteenth-century printer and lawyer, collecting pleading forms and precedents for lawyers and clerks, later owned by John Adams. Its pictures are small printed ornaments: a woodcut initial letter A wrapped in foliage, a fragment of a decorated headpiece, a later engraved bookplate with a coat of arms and scrolling acanthus, and a portrait medallion of Adams. A designer could draw on the dense, black-and-white strapwork and leafy woodcut borders of the early piece for historical ornament.
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