Ad virulentum Archibaldi Hamiltonii apostatae dialogum, de confusione Caluinianae sectae apud Scotos, impiè conscriptum orthodoxa responsio. Thoma Smetonio Scoto auctore. In qua celebris illa quaestio de ecclesia, de vniuersalitate, successione, & Romani Episcopi primatu breuiter, dilucidè, & accuratè tractatur. Adiecta est vera historia extremae vitae & obitus eximij viri Ioan. Knoxij Ecclesiae Scoticanae instauratoris fidelissimi
A 1579 Latin polemic printed at Edinburgh by Iohannes Rosseus for Henricus Charteris, written by the Scottish Catholic Thomas Smeton against the Calvinist Archibald Hamilton and the Church of Scotland, and held by Princeton University Library. Its pictures are woodcut ornaments: two square corner-and-border frames of interlaced scrollwork, a diamond-shaped floral panel, and a decorated initial C with a dragon-like creature and foliage, all printed in black on tan paper. A designer could take the dense interlace borders and the diamond cartouche as reference for Renaissance-style ornamental framing and initial letters.
