Le fontane di Roma nelle piaze e luoghi publici della città ...
A 1675 Roman book of engraved fountain views by Giovanni Battista Falda, published by G.G. de Rossi for public squares and places in Rome. The one picture is an armorial bookplate with a heraldic shield, helmet and crest, flanked by two eagles, above a scroll bearing the motto 'Perissem Nisi Perissem' and the name of Sir John Anstruther of that ilk, Baronet. It shows how a dense engraved frame of scrolling acanthus and symbolic birds can organise a small, centred composition for a designer.
