The faerie queene : disposed into XII bookes, fashioning twelue morall vertues
A 1609 London edition of Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene, printed by Humphrey Lownes for Matthew Lownes, with decorative woodcut initials and ornamental head and tail pieces. The pictures are small printer's ornaments: a dragon and a crowned lion beside vases of flowers, carved tapestry-like strapwork, cherubs flanking central cartouches, and foliage borders, which a designer could borrow for pattern, framing and historical type decoration.
