L'Acerba
This is a bookplate rather than a page of the book itself, showing the Burndy Library, chartered in 1941, with a red compass-rose emblem and a fleur-de-lis above a red double-ruled frame. L'Acerba is a fourteenth-century Italian didactic poem by Cecco d'Ascoli, catalogued here under science and technology history for the Smithsonian Libraries. The picture offers a designer a restrained red-and-cream heraldic bookplate layout, with a centred compass star and classic serif capitals that suit antiquarian or scientific-institution branding.
