Border-Pieces used by English Printers before 1641

Bibliographical Society, London, reprinted from the Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 1924. Small edition of perhaps 20 - 30 copies. Printed wrappers, small 4to, 23 cm,. 37 pp. Uncommon separate printing: from 1894 twenty copies of any paper printed in the Transactions were presented to the writer, and presumably a few more were run off. From the text: "In the title of this paper as given on the card of the Society's meetings its subject was described as ‘border-pieces', an expression the meaning of which is perhaps somewhat vague. Had I been sure that I should be understood I should have preferred to call the paper English compartments to 1640' using ‘ compartments ' in the somewhat odd sense which seems to have been introduced by Ames in his Typo¬graphical Antiquities of 1749, and which is now, I think, definitely recognized by most bibliographers.. as meaning any ornamental frame for a printed page, whether of one piece or of several belonging together, which does not consist merely of a number of repetitions of the same design. Thus a border of type ornaments is not a compartment, nor is a border made up of small separate woodcuts which have nothing in their design to link them together, but practically any other frame is a compartment. Scarce - no copy on JISC Discover. Yapp edges slightly browned and chipped, otherwise a Very Good unopened copy.