An essay of the meanes hovv to make our trauailes, into forraine countries, the more profitable and honourable
An essay printed in London in 1606 by Humphrey Lownes for Mathew Lownes, written by Sir Thomas Palmer, offering advice to English gentlemen on making foreign travel profitable and honourable. The pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a central mask flanked by scrolling foliage, an initial C with a seated figure and putti, an initial I with two putti, and a strip of heraldic and floral panels, useful to a designer for early modern border and initial-letter ornament.
