date published: 1600-1649

Whole Booke of Psalmes, 1640 (2E2v)

If you look closely at this page, you can see a number of signs that the printers weren't experts: the inked shoulders, an italic L instead of a roman, different styles of apostrophes, and slightly wobbly letters.

Wroth, Urania, 1621 (2o2r)

The start of a new book within this text is marked off with a display typeface providing the title an initial letter.

Wroth, Urania, 1621 (A1r)

This title page for Wroth's prose romance is entirely engraved, from the illustration to the title above and the imprint statement below. At the very bottom of the page, on the left, is the engraver's name, "Sim. Passaeus, sculp:"