Tragedie of Cleopatra
A 1599 London tragedy by poet Samuel Daniel on Cleopatra, printed by Peter Short for the bookseller Simon Waterson and later owned by Thomas Jolley. The pictures are small black-and-white letterpress ornaments: a strapwork cartouche, a decorated initial A with foliage, a scrolled border band, and a heraldic coat of arms with a lion, three hands and a crest. A designer might take the interlaced scrollwork and the foliated initial as period models for borders, capitals and emblem-style frames.
