Theater of Machines, Part 1

To the favorable reader.

money: whereas this Theater is to be shown in a convenient form and at light cost.

Therefore, I have herewith asked the art-loving reader to be content for this time with this my work as a beginning, and if not everything is made as accurately as it should justly be, he should expect from me that I will not fail to make amends for such in the future with diligence. And herewith I commend us all to the Divine protection.

An ornate, symmetrical printer's ornament features a central human face (a mask or grotesque) surrounded by scrolling acanthus leaves, volutes, and hanging tassels, flanked by two stylized animal heads at the upper corners.