Joannis Schildi De coalitione populorum ac rerumpublicarum libri tres. : In quibus coalescentium initia, conditiones, res florentes, controversiae, vitia, res labantes, dissolutiones, ex omnis aevi historia eruuntur, ac dissertationibus politicis illustrantur
A 1661 Latin political treatise by Johann Schild, printed at The Hague by Adriaen Vlacq, on how peoples and states formed alliances and how those alliances rose and dissolved. The three pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters A, R and H, each a large capital framed by dense scrolling foliage, arabesques and small rounded knobs set into the ink-black letterforms. A designer could take from them the stencil-like contrast between solid capital and fine interior ornament, useful for display type or heritage-style borders.
