Judicious and select essayes and observations.
Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations is a 1650 London essay collection by Sir Walter Raleigh, printed by Thomas Warren for the bookseller Humphrey Moseley and sold at the Prince's Arms in St Paul's Churchyard. Its pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: a decorative initial H, a foliate initial W with curling leaves and hatched shading, and a printer's device of a fleur-de-lis inside a scrolled oval cartouche. A designer could take from them dense, black-and-white strapwork and foliage motifs suited to period-style borders and monograms.
