A treatise of chirurgery
A treatise of chirurgery by Leonardo Fioravanti, printed in London in 1652, is a medical and surgical handbook for practitioners of the period. The pictures are crude black-ink pieces: a dense symmetrical arabesque ornament with interlaced scrollwork and fleur-like terminals, and a rough sketch of a boot or shoe in heavy outline with a smudged shadow, suited to designers seeking hand-printed woodcut texture and old ornamental vocabulary.
