Dissertationem inauguralem de paronychia ...
A 1674 Latin medical dissertation by Ernst Fridemann, printed with no identified place or publisher and held by the Wellcome Library. The picture is a large decorative initial Q with a woodcut-style figure inside its bowl, set beside columns of dense black letterpress text. A designer could take from it the classic seventeenth-century approach of framing a historiated initial with ornamental foliage and mixing it with solid body type.
