The works of the learned Sr Thomas Brown, Kt. ... : Containing I. Enquiries into vulgar and common errors. II. Religio medici : with annotations and observations upon it. III. Hydriotaphia; or, Urn-burial : together with The garden of Cyrus. IV. Certain miscellany tracts. With alphabetical tables
A collected edition of Sir Thomas Browne's writings, printed in London in 1686 by several booksellers for the general reading public of the period. The pictures are small woodcut printers' ornaments: a repeated decorative headpiece with scrolls, flower vases, a winged cherub and a central book, plus a row of three crowned emblems of a rose, thistle and harp. A designer could take from them a compact, symmetrical bordering vocabulary of scrolls, vases and crowns suited to early modern title pages.
