Arte dela lengua mexicana y castellana,
A grammar of the Nahuatl language with Spanish, written by the Franciscan friar Alonso de Molina and printed in Mexico City in 1576 for missionaries and colonial readers. The pages are dense Spanish black-letter text set under woodcut historiated initials showing figures at work, such as a scribe at a desk and a man with a basket. A designer could take from them the compact stacked rhythm of text beside a small framed figure, and the carved, slightly rough line of the woodcut figures.
