Romanæ historiæ anthologia recognita et avcta. An English exposition of the Roman antiquities, wherein many Roman & English offices are paralleld, and divers obscure phrases explained. For the use of Abingdon Schoole
Romanæ historiæ anthologia is a 1631 Latin schoolbook on Roman antiquities, compiled by Thomas Goodwin and printed at Oxford for use at Abingdon School. Its pictures are letterpress ornaments: a foliage border with fleurs-de-lis and crowns, and decorated initial letters beside running text. A designer might take from them the dense, symmetrical woodcut borders and the ornamental capitals of seventeenth-century English print.
