A report containing an essay for the amendment of the silver coins
A 1695 London printed report by William Lowndes, a government official, on reforming England's silver coinage, with its decorative chapter-opening blocks reused as headpieces. The four pictures are square woodcut ornaments of stylised flowers and leaves framing a central Roman numeral 'I' or 'T' in a panel, each with a slightly different layout and cutting. A designer could take from them a dense, symmetrical floral border system around a central cartouche, useful for framing a single initial or numeral.
