Lelio bandito : tragicomedia boschereccia
A 1620 Italian pastoral tragicomedy printed in Milan by Giovanni Battista Bidelli, written by Giovanni Battista Andreini, with its text set in roman type beside decorative woodcut initials. The four pictures are ornamental capital letters, each framed by interlaced foliage, scrollwork and leafy knots in black on cream paper, with the letters T, S, E and P; a designer could borrow the strapwork-and-foliage frame structure for initial letters or border ornament.
