Inquisitio philosophica inauguralis de lapide solis
A Latin academic dissertation printed in Leyden in 1699 by A. Elzevier and written by John Gale, a philosophical inquiry into the philosopher's stone of the sun, held by the Wellcome Library. The pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a foliate frieze of scrolling vines with cherubs, a block of interlaced strapwork forming a decorative initial, and a tailpiece showing a man beside a leafy tree beneath a banner reading NON SOLUS over two serpents. A designer might borrow the compact tailpiece vignette and the dense interlace of the initial for emblem-style panels and border work.
