The mysteries of nature and art in 4 severall pts
John Bate's The Mysteries of Nature and Art, printed in London in 1635 by T. Harper, is an early modern compendium of science, art, fireworks and waterworks written for curious general readers and craftsmen. The woodcuts show experimental apparatus such as a floating candle-lit vessel, a tripod device with a burning candle, and a spouting bird-shaped ewer, drawn in simple outline with hatched shading. A designer might take from them the dense, hand-cut linework and the decorative historiated initial with its foliate interlace.
