Early voyages and travels in the Levant: with some account of the Levant Company of Turkey Merchants
This 1893 edited volume gathers travel accounts by Thomas Dallam and John Covel, with notes by James Theodore Bent, on early English journeys in the Levant and the Levant Company of Turkey merchants. The pictures are two black-and-white ornamental wood-engraved motifs of stylised leaves, scrolls and berry-tipped stems, plus a grey tonal portrait of a bewigged clergyman in a white collar and dark gown labelled D. Covel. A designer could take from the ornaments a dense, symmetrical Renaissance-style scroll vocabulary for borders or panels.
