The merchants mappe of commerce : wherein, the universall manner and matter of trade, is compendiously handled ...
A 1638 London commercial handbook by Lewes Roberts, printed by R.O. for R. Mabb, setting out the practice of trade, weights and measures, and foreign exchange for merchants. The pictures are small decorative initial letters, mostly capitals set in ornate woodcut frames of scrolling foliage, with one lighter floral letter on a stippled ground. A designer could take from them a range of historic initial-letter framing, from dense black strapwork to open leafy borders.
