The workes of Geffray Chaucer : newlye printed, wyth dyuers workes whych were neuer in print before : as in the table more playnly doth appere
This is a 1542 London edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's collected works, edited by William Thynne and printed by Richard Grafton for the bookseller John Reynes at St Paul's Churchyard. The four pictures are black-letter pages whose opening lines begin with large decorative woodcut initials, framed in foliage and interlace, beside the text columns. A designer might take from them the dense blackletter typography and the ornamental initial letters with their leafy, scrolled ornament.
