Utilidades del agua y de la nieve, del bever frio y caliente
A 1637 Spanish medical treatise printed in Madrid by Alonso Martín, written by Fernando Cardoso on the uses of water and snow and on drinking cold versus warm water, aimed at learned readers. Its pages are dense black-letter-style text in a serif face with a large decorated initial M, marginal side notes in italic, and a running head, so a designer might take the strong typographic hierarchy, the tight justified columns, and the drop-cap letter as models for historical text layout.
