A discourse of a discouerie for a new passage to Cataia.
A 1576 London discourse by Sir Humphrey Gilbert, printed by Henry Middleton for Richard Hakluyt-era publisher Richarde Ihones, arguing for a northwest passage route to Cathay and addressed to English readers interested in exploration and geography. The pages are set in black-letter type with large decorated initial letters: a foliate W, an E with scrolling ornament, a P beside a grotesque, and a historiated S with leafy vine ornament, all cut as woodblock borders a designer could adapt for display capitals and period headers.
