Le rivolutioni di Napoli
Le rivolutioni di Napoli is a 1648 Italian history of the Naples uprisings by Alessandro Giraffi, printed in Geneva to match a Venice edition and later owned by John Adams. The two woodcut pictures are small printers' ornaments: a grotesque mask with scrolling leaves and tassels, and a ship's anchor wound with a rope. A designer could take from them the dense, hand-cut line work typical of seventeenth-century Italian headpieces and tailpieces, useful for decorative borders, logo marks, or vintage emblem treatments.
