A discourse and discouery of New-found-land, with many reasons to prooue how worthy and beneficiall a plantation may there be made, after a far better manner than now it is. : Together with the laying open of certaine enormities and abuses committed by some that trade to that countrey, and the meanes laid downe for reformation thereof.
Richard Whitbourne's 1622 promotional discourse on Newfoundland, printed in London by Felix Kinston for prospective colonists and merchants trading to the colony. The pictures are small woodcut typographic ornaments: a fleur-de-lis flanked by scrolling foliate strapwork, a decorative initial I in hatched woodcut, and a grotesque mask-and-beast frieze, useful to a designer as period headpieces and tailpieces.
