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Archival & Collage Decorated Initials Capitals for an initial or a monogram: flower-inlaid, oak-leaf, fluted, blackletter, spiral and tiled. View all tiles Archival & Collage Printer’s Cuts Stock pictures for notices and handbills: ships, eagles, trades, beasts, pointing hands and almanac scenes. View all tiles Archival & Collage Printer’s Flowers Cast type ornaments for borders and frames: rosettes, acanthus, palmettes, Greek key and fine flourishes. View all tiles Archival & Collage The Beasts & Serpents Rhinoceros, unicorn and lynx: the beasts of Topsell’s 1658 bestiary, cut in bold, confident line. View all tiles Archival & Collage The Drolatic Dreams Strange, comic figures from Les Songes drolatiques de Pantagruel, a Paris picture book of 1565. View all tiles Archival & Collage The Herball Irises, daffodils, grasses and grain from Gerard’s Herball of 1636, each shown whole, flower to root. View all tiles Archival & Collage Wonderland John Tenniel’s Alice, from the White Rabbit to the pack of cards, in fine wood-engraved line. View the tile