Narratio historica vicissitvdinis rervm quae in inclyto Brittaniae Regno acciderunt, Anno Domini 1553
A 1558 Latin historical narrative by Peter Martyr Vermigli, a Reformation-era Italian theologian, printed without a named place and written about the turbulent events in England during 1553. The pictures are small woodcut decorative initials, mostly capitals framed in ornamental borders, showing foliage, scrollwork, a human figure and a bird in a circle, offering a designer examples of early printed letterforms and frame ornament.







