Frumentorum, Leguminum, palustrium et aquatilium herbarum,ac eorum, quae eo? pertinent, historia? Remberto Dodonaeo Mechliniensi Medico auctore...
A 1566 Antwerp herbal by Rembert Dodoens, printed by Plantin, written in Latin for physicians and botanists, describing grains, pulses and water plants. The pages are dense Latin text set in roman type with small woodcut plant figures in the margins, and the annotations and running heads show how early botanical books organised their pages for a scholarly reader. A designer might take the tight justified columns, the marginal woodcut placement, and the restrained black-on-cream typography as a model for scientific page layout.
