The first booke of the historie of the discouerie and conquest of the East Indias, enterprised by the Portingales, in their daungerous nauigations, in the time of King Don Iohn, the second of that name. : VVhich historie conteineth much varietie of matter, very profitable for all Nauigators, and not vnpleasaunt to the Readers.
A 1582 London edition, printed by Thomas East, of Fernão Lopes de Castanheda's English-language history of Portuguese voyages and conquests in the East Indies, written for navigators and general readers. Its pictures are small black-letter pages dominated by decorated woodcut initials, including a foliated capital A and a historiated letter with two monkeys, which a designer could adapt as compact ornamental letterforms.
