The true intellectual system of the universe : the first part; wherein, all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted; and its impossibility demonstrated
A 1678 London philosophical treatise by Ralph Cudworth, printed for Richard Royston, arguing against atheism and held in the John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library. The pictures are not illustrations of the argument but a repeated decorative woodcut headpiece or tailpiece: a frieze of a crowned figure beside flower sprays, circular rosette wheels, a tulip-like urn with scrolling foliage, and fruit clusters, all in dense black line. A designer could draw on its symmetrical rosette roundels and scrolling botanical borders for period ornament.
