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Le miroir de la cruelle, & horrible tyrannie espagnole perpetree au Pays Bas, par le tyran duc de Albe, & aultres co[m]mandeurs de par le roy Philippe le deuxiesme. : On a adjoinct la deuxiesme partie de les tyrannies commises aux Indes occidentales par les Espagnols. .

1620 · tot Amsterdam : ghedruckt by Ian Evertss. Cloppenburg, op't Water tegen over de Koor[n]-Beurs in [de] vergulden Bijbel. · 3 pictures

A 1620 Dutch-language printing issued at Amsterdam by Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburg, a account of Spanish cruelty in the Netherlands under the Duke of Alba and of Spanish abuses in the West Indies, aimed at a Protestant reading public. The three pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters P, I and Q, each framed by dense interlaced foliage, scrollwork and hatched shading, showing how early printers built ornamental capitals a designer can borrow for display type or border work.

Inquisition -- Netherlands · Netherlands -- History -- Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648

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