[Conservación de monarqvias y discvrsos políticos sobre la gran consulta que el consejo hizo al Senor Rey don Filipe Tercero al presidente
A 1626 Spanish political treatise on monarchy, written by Pedro Fernández Navarrete and printed in Madrid by the Imprenta Real for the court of King Philip III. The four pictures are decorated initial letters in woodcut style, with the L, A and C filled by foliage, scrolling vines, and small figures, while the second is an ornamental strapwork panel with grotesque heads and curling cartouches. A designer could draw on these as models for historical letterforms, borders, and decorative capitals with dense interlace.
