Printers' ornaments

I came across Compositor, a really wonderful site that has a huge collection of printers’ ornaments from the 1700s. Eighteenth-century books were highly decorated and decorative. Their pages were adorned with ornaments that ranged from small floral embellishments to large and intricate head- and tailpieces, depicting all manner of people, places, and things. Compositor includes ornaments cut by hand in blocks of wood or metal, as well as cast ornaments, engravings, and fleurons (ornamental typography). Here are four: A linear ornament A linear ornament A square ornament with two lions in front of a castle A linear ornament with a lion's face in the middle The project was overseen by Hazel Wilkinson, who cowrote “Computer Vision and the Creation of a Database of Printers’ Ornaments” (Digital Humanities Quarterly vol. 15 no. 1, 2021), from which I quote: “All of the content is in the public domain, so the images collected in Fleuron are freely disseminated for public use.” (Fleuron is…