Coryats crudities : hastily gobled up in five moneths travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia commonly called the Grisons country, Helvetia aliàs Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands : newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the county of Somerset, & now dispersed to the nourishment of the travelling members of this kingdome ... : now distilled into English spirit through the Odcombian Limbecke; this precedeth the crudities; another also composed by the author of the former, in praise of travell of Germanie in particular, sublimed and brought over the helme in the stillitorie of the said travelling Thomas, this about the center or navell of the crudities : then in the posterne of them looke, and thou shalt find the posthume poems of the authors father ..
Coryats Crudities is a 1611 London travel account by Thomas Coryate, printed by W. Stansby, describing a five-month journey through France, Italy, Switzerland and Germany for English readers. Its pictures are ornamental printer's devices: decorative strapwork headpieces, a cartouche-style banner reading Serenissimo, and a large ornamented initial I, showing how dense engraved borders and calligraphic capitals framed early modern text.
