The gentlemans exercise, or, An exquisite practise : as well for drawing all manner of beasts in their true portraitures, as also the making of all kinds of colors, to be used in limming, painting, tricking, and blazon of coates, and armes, with divers other most delightfull and pleasurable observations for all young gentlemen and others : as also serving for the necessary use and generall benefit of diuers trades-men and artificers ...
Henry Peacham's practical manual on drawing animals, mixing pigments for limning, and blazoning coats of arms, printed in London in 1634 for young gentlemen, tradesmen and artificers. The index holds woodcut initials in which capitals sit inside dense foliate scrollwork, tulips, rosettes and hatched strapwork, usable as drop caps, corner ornaments or repeat patterns.
