Vita e lettere di Amerigo Vespucci, gentiluomo fiorentino
A 1745 Florentine biography of the navigator Amerigo Vespucci, written by the librarian Angelo Maria Bandini and printed in Florence at the Stamperia all'insegna di Apollo for a scholarly readership. The four pictures are small woodcut headpieces and tailpieces, mostly ornamental: a draped swag with tassels, a mask with scrolls and crossed arrows, acanthus scrollwork, and a vase of flowers flanked by foliage, all printed in the margins of text pages. A designer might take the scrolling acanthus frames and the mask-and-swag motifs as ready models for classical borders and dividers.
