The first two of the ensuing specimens belong to volumes of a duodecimo size; the second to a quarto publication of Wynkyn De Worde, unknown to Herbert, but representing the usual frontispiece of grammatical works published in the early part of the sixteenth century. The two following, at p. li. liii., belong to publications* of a folio size; the latter of which has already been before the public in the frontispiece to the large paper copies of my edition of Sir Thomas More's Utopia.

Borders to pages of the body of a work, or different manners of setting up a page, is also another department of ORNAMENTAL PRINTING; and of this, the Prayer Book before mentioned, [p. xxi.] published in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, is probably the most splendid example which this country ever produced. This mode of setting up a page was, however, practised in a different and equally beautiful manner; of which the specimen, at p. lv, the last that I shall give, is one of the most appropriate examples that could be brought forward: being equally illustrative of vignette and capitalinitial ornament. It is taken from the fragments of a quarto edition of the Testament in black letter, which has been noticed at page xvii, ante.

* The title page of the second part of Bulleyn's Defence against Sickness and Sores,' 1572, folio, is a beautiful specimen of a border on a large scale; and 'A Sermon preached before the Queenes Majesty at Richmond the 6 of March 1575. By the reurend father in God the Bishop of Chicester, Printed by H. Binneman for H. Toy in 12mo. is an equally beautiful specimen of the art of engraving. The figures of Christ rising from the tomb, at top, and of St. Peter and St. Paul, on the sides, have a spirit and richness hardly excelled by those in the Dance of Death, called Holbein's; but of which, in fact, HANS LUTZELBURGER was the inimitable author. See an elegant little book published in 1804, [p. 22.] on this latter subject.

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