A discovery of the fraudulent practises of Iohn Darrel ... detecting in some sort the deceitfull trade in these latter dayes of casting out devils
A 1599 London printed polemic by Samuel Harsnett exposing the fraudulent exorcisms of the clergyman John Darrel, aimed at a English reading public and a Puritan-controversy readership. The pictures are woodcut decorative initial letters, mostly T, H, W and I, built from interlaced foliage, scrollwork, lion heads and blackletter-era framing, suggesting how a designer might construct a monogram or ornamental capital from botanical and scroll motifs.




