Dechado de la vida humana, moralmente sacado del juego del axedrez
A 1549 Spanish moral treatise printed in Valladolid by Francisco Fernández de Córdoba, a Spanish translation of Jacobus de Cessolis's allegory of chess, aimed at readers seeking moral instruction. The pictures are dense black-letter text blocks beside large ornamental woodcut initials with scrolling leaf and knotwork forms, offering a designer ideas for historical display capitals, decorative drop caps and compact text-and-ornament page layouts.
