The elements of architecture,
Sir Henry Wotton's The Elements of Architecture, printed in London by John Bill in 1624, is an early English treatise on building theory aimed at readers of architecture. The three pictures are decorative printers' ornaments: an ornamented initial I, a framed initial E with interlaced foliage, and a horizontal band with winged figures and scrolling acanthus, all in woodcut-style black ink on aged cream paper. A designer could take from them the dense, symmetrical strapwork and foliate scroll patterns typical of early seventeenth-century English typography.
