An ornamental woodcut headpiece featuring a central vessel or urn with scrolling floral and foliage motifs, flanked by two symmetrical mythical birds (griffins or dragons) facing outwards.

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Large decorative woodcut initial 'T' within a square frame featuring scrolling floral and leaf patterns. Talos, a certain figure appointed by Jove over Crete with bronze feet, is imagined to have performed with such speed that he was able to circle Crete three times daily and carry the tablets of the laws through the towns (which are said to have been one hundred in number). To him, candid reader, that Fraternity of the R.C. Rosicrucian, which is currently on everyone's lips, appears not dissimilar. For they not only believe it to be "Cretizing" acting like a deceptive Cretan, but also affirm that it carries tablets, not full of laws, but of trifles, through Europe.