The generall historie of the magnificent state of Venice. From the first foundation thereof vntill this present
A 1612 London printing of a general history of Venice, from its foundation onward, written by Thomas de Fougasses and printed by G. Eld and W. Stansby. The pictures are small woodcut portraits of the Dukes of Venice, each set in a decorative typographic frame with a numbered label, name and coat of arms. A designer might take from them the tidy hierarchy of framed portrait, ornate border and printed caption used in early seventeenth-century historical books.
