The shepheard's paradise : a comedy : privately acted before the late King Charls by the Queen's Majesty, and ladies of honour

Montagu, Walter, 1603?-1677, Starkey, John, active 17th century, bookseller, Roxburghe, John Ker, Duke of, 1740-1804, former owner, Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner · 1659 · London : Printed for John Starkey at the Miter, nere the Middle Temple Gate in Fleet-Street · 3 pictures

A 1659 London printing by John Starkey, bookseller at the Miter in Fleet Street, of Walter Montagu's pastoral comedy The Shepheard's Paradise, privately acted before King Charles I by the Queen and her ladies of honour. The pictures are small letterpress ornaments: a strapwork and foliage headpiece with a central cartouche, a heraldic shield under a crown, and a decorated initial A with a grotesque border, all in dense black ink on cream paper, useful to a designer as period borders, initials, and heraldic devices.

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