Pys-mantia the mag-astro-mancer, : or The magicall-astrologicall-diviner posed, and puzzled
A 1652 London polemic by the clergyman John Gaule attacking astrologers and magical diviners, printed for the bookseller Joshua Kirton and aimed at literate Protestant readers. The illustrations are square woodcut initials — Y, H, B, W — set in dense foliage, acorns, curling tendrils and hatched leaves, useful as drop caps or as sources of worn-block letterforms and hatching texture.
