Opera Ioan. Goropii Becani : hactenus in lucem non edita : nempe, Hermathena, Hieroglyphica, Vertvmnvs, Gallica, Francica, Hispanica
A 1580 Antwerp emblem and hieroglyph treatise by Joannes Goropius Becanus, printed by Christophorus Plantinus with engravings attributed to Jeronimus Wierix, aimed at scholars and readers of learned Latin. Its pictures are small woodcut-style plates of pyramids, obelisks, a shield-like cartouche with classical figures, and cloud-filled landscapes, set beside dense type; a designer might borrow their symbolic framing devices, sparse line shading, and the way single emblematic objects are isolated on a plain field.
