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The knight of the burning pestle

Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616, Fletcher, John, 1579-1625, author, Okes, Nicholas, printer, Burre, Walter, bookseller, Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner, Brentford, C., autographer · 1613 · London : Printed [by Nicholas Okes] for Walter Burre, and are to be sold at the signe of the Crane in Paules Church-yard · 3 pictures

The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a 1613 London play by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, printed by Nicholas Okes for the bookseller Walter Burre and sold at his Crane shop in Paul's Churchyard. Its pictures are small letterpress decorations: a woodcut initial S set among scrolling foliage, a square ornamental initial F framed by curling tendrils, and a band of stylised leafy and interlaced ornament, offering designers ready-made border, initial and frieze motifs for historical typography.

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