A fresh discovery of some prodigious new wandring blasing stars and firebrands stiling themselves New Lights, firing our Church and State into new combustions ..
A 1645 London pamphlet by the Puritan polemicist William Prynne, printed by John Macock for Michael Spark, attacking dissenting religious groups who called themselves New Lights. The three pictures are small printer's ornaments: a woodcut initial M framed by stylised flowers and leaves, a decorated initial T with scrolling foliage, and a horizontal border strip of repeated interlaced rosettes. A designer could take from them the dense black-and-white woodcut vocabulary of early modern printers, with strong frames, scrolls, and repeating border units.
