Dissertationem inauguralem de asthmate ...
A 1680 Latin medical dissertation on asthma by Johann Christoph Caesar, printed at Altdorf in the Schönnerstædt press for academic readers. Its pictures are letterpress typography: a large decorated initial N with foliate scrollwork beside a column of black-letter text, and a fruit-and-scroll ornament centred on a pumpkin-like form with curling acanthus leaves. A designer might borrow the dense interlace of the initial and the symmetrical, bilaterally balanced ornament band as period framing devices.
