The tragedy of Nero : newly written
A 1624 printed play, The Tragedy of Nero, set in London by printers Augustine Mathewes and John Norton for bookseller Thomas Jones, and sold at the Black Raven in the Strand. The picture is a marbled endpaper with a bookplate showing a bull's head crest above a black diagonal-banded shield bearing three bull heads, inscribed William Holgate, a former owner's mark. For a designer, the marbled swirls of reds, ochres and browns and the crisp heraldic device offer period ornament and a stamped ownership motif.
