Amusements serious and comical
Amusements serious and comical is a satirical prose miscellany by Thomas Brown, printed for the London bookseller John Nutt in 1700, aimed at a literate urban readership. The picture is only a large decorated initial T beside the words 'HE', 'on' and 'tho' in roman type, with a worn, mottled paper ground; a designer might take from it the scale and weight of a historic drop capital set against plain text.
