The parable of the pilgrim. Written to a friend
A 1667 devotional allegory, The parable of the pilgrim, by Simon Patrick, printed in London by R. White for F. Tyton and addressed to a friend, with a Dorothy Stratford autograph noted in the record. The pictures are printed ornaments rather than scenes: a horizontal border of intertwined scrollwork, grotesque birds and beasts, and a central urn, plus a large decorated initial I with hatched foliage. A designer could take from them the dense, hand-cut seventeenth-century strapwork and the way a symmetrical band of creatures frames a central motif.
