Date:1587
Description:A Printer's header ornament on a Shakespeare sourcebook. The printer’s ornaments in many Elizabethan books have elaborate detail. In this volume hunters with their dogs confront a bear while coiled snakes hide in the decorative foliage. The symbolism might well be applied to Shakespeare’s interpretation of the English history he found in the text, as the English nobility confront their monarch in civil wars in Henry VI, or the king attempts to rule with absolute power, in Richard III. Full title: Raphael Holinshed, The first and second volumes of chronicles[The thirde volume, etc.]... Now newlie augmented and continued... to the yeare 1586 by Iohn Hooker alias Vowell Gent. and others... [London] at the expenses of Iohn Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke, 1587.
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