Leviathan, sive, De materia, forma, & potestate civitatis ecclesiasticae et civilis
Hobbes's Leviathan, published in Amsterdam in 1670 by Joannes Blaeu, is a political treatise on the state and church, and these pictures are woodcut decorative pieces: an ornate historiated initial letter, a scrolled cartouche with a figure, and a printer's device with a celestial globe, two standing figures and the motto 'Indefessus agendo'. A designer could draw on the dense interlaced scrollwork, the framed capital and the emblematic motto banner for period-style borders, monograms and title-page ornament.
