Titles of honor
A 1614 London treatise by the lawyer John Selden on titles of honour and nobility, printed by William Stansby for John Helme. Its pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: a historiated initial T, a lion-flanked letter C, a strip of foliate and fleur-de-lis border, and a chi-rho monogram. Designers could draw on these as compact period decorative units for initials, rules, and monograms.
