Dialectica resolutio : cum textu Aristotelis
Dialectica resolutio is a 1554 Latin logic treatise printed in Mexico City by Juan Pablo Brissense, written by the Augustinian friar Alonso de la Vera Cruz with the text of Aristotle and Porphyry. The pictures are woodcut historiated initials, large decorative letters with interlaced strapwork, foliage and scrollwork set beside dense black-letter columns, offering a designer examples of early colonial Mexican letterpress ornament and how a display letter can anchor a text block.











