Exercitationes de generatione animalium : Quibus acc. quaedam de partu: de membranis ac humoribus uteri: & de conceptione
Exercitationes de generatione animalium is a Latin treatise on animal generation by the physician William Harvey, published in 1651 in Amsterdam by Elzevier and in London by Pulleyn for a learned readership. The single picture is a large decorative woodcut initial H with interlaced foliate scrollwork flanking a plain letter stem, beside lines of black-letter Latin text with a swash-like italic opening. A designer could take from it the dense, carved strapwork of early printed capitals as a model for ornamental letterforms and framing borders.
