De optimo reip. statu, deque noua insula Vtopia, libellus uere aureus, nec minus salutaris quám festiuus,
Utopia by Thomas More, printed in Basel in 1518 by Johann Froben, with a Latin text aimed at humanist scholars and readers. The pictures are woodcut title pages and decorative initials: a framed architectural scene with figures at the top, a central caduceus-like emblem between columns, and a large initial V formed by two cherubic figures climbing and tugging at the letter, which suggests how small figures can animate a letterform.
