Chronicon ex chronicis ab initio mundi vsque ad annum Domini 1118 deductum
This is a 1592 Latin chronicle of world history from the creation to 1118, printed in London by Thomas Dawson for Richard Watkins and compiled from earlier chronicles by Florence of Worcester and Marianus Scotus. The four woodcut pictures are decorative printer's initials, each a framed capital letter surrounded by foliage, scrolls, and small figures, offering a designer dense, historically flavoured ornamental letter forms to adapt for display headings and drop caps.
