A discourse of the Roman foot, and Denarius: from whence, as from two principles, the measures, and weights, used by the ancients, may be deduced
John Greaves's 1647 London treatise, printed for William Lee, is a scholarly discourse on ancient weights and measures, deriving them from the Roman foot and the denarius. Its pictures are small woodcut decorative initials, a boxed numeral CXX with lettered corner marks, and a pair of profile heads beside a coin-like emblem, offering a designer period ornament, label-style framing, and classical portrait roundels.
