The presumptuous man's mirrour, or, A watch bell to rouze up a secure sinner out of his sleep of security ..
The presumptuous man's mirrour is a 1641 London devotional tract by Benjamin Austin, printed by G.M. for George Edwards, aimed at complacent sinners and preserved at Princeton University Library. Its three pictures are ornamental printers' initials and a rule of crowned floral devices, with one initial framing two figures within a cartouche of scrolls and foliage. A designer could take from them the dense, hand-cut woodblock vocabulary of seventeenth-century English print: heavy caps, scrolled borders and small crowned emblems that suit historical or devotional layouts.
