The vanity of arts and sciences
A 1694 London edition, printed by R. Everingham for R. Bentley and Dan. Brown, of Agrippa von Nettesheim's treatise on the vanity of learning and the sciences, held in the McManus-Young Collection. The pictures are small black-and-white engravings: a bearded figure with a staff in an ornate woodcut initial, an oval portrait of a man in a cap with an inscription, and a large ornamental capital W with italic lettering. A designer might take the decorative letterforms and framed oval portrait as models for historical typography and frame layouts.
