Title-page ornaments

For analyses of graphic wit in selected English printed books, see one of the classical studies on this subject, Margery Corbett and R.W. Lightbown, Comely Frontispiece: The Emblematic Title-Page in England, 1550-1600 (London, 1979); see especially, "The Decoration of the Title-Page," p. 2ff., and "Devices and Emblems," p. 10ff.