The learned man defended and reform'd : a discourse of singular politeness and elocution, seasonably asserting the right of the muses in opposition to the many enemies which in this age learning meets with, and more especially those two ignorance and vice : in two parts
A 1660 London printed treatise by Daniello Bartoli, translated by Thomas Salusbury, defending learning and scholarship against ignorance and vice for a literate English readership. The pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a strip of putti with a foliate scroll, repeated across three near-identical frames, and a large decorative initial T built from hatched leaves and rounded knots. A designer could take from them the dense, hatched black-line vocabulary of seventeenth-century printer's ornament for borders, dividers, and drop caps.
