Sylva sylvarum; or, A natural history, in ten centuries. Whereunto is newly added the History natural and experimental of life and death, or of the prolongation of life
Sylva Sylvarum is a 1670 London natural history by Francis Bacon, with additions by William Rawley, printed for the bookseller William Lee for a scholarly readership. Its pictures are small woodcut headpieces and initials: flower sprays, a classical figure pair framing a letter W, and a T set among foliage and a bowl, showing period ornament a designer could adapt for decorative borders and monograms.
