Der Compass der Weisen ...
Der Compass der Weisen is a German-language book by Adam Michael Birkholz, published in 1782 by Friedrich Maurer, written for a readership of educated German Protestants and Freemasons. Its pictures are small black-and-white copperplate-style vignettes above the text: a tree-framed scene with a flaming or radiating emblem, a figure beside a tree and a building, and decorated initial letters, which suggest how a designer might use compact framed vignettes and ornamental capitals as period text ornament.
