Newe Welt. : Warhafftige Anzeigung der Hispanier grewlichen, abschewlichen vnd vnmenschlichen Tyranney, von jhnen inn den indianischen Ländern, so gegen Nidergang der Sonnen gelegen, vnd die Newe Welt genennet wird, begangen.
Bartolomé de las Casas's 1597 German account of Spanish cruelty toward the Indians of the New World, printed in Frankfurt for a German readership. The four woodcut ornaments are decorative initials and headpieces: a lion's mask with scrollwork, dense foliate filigree, and a large decorated letter D with interlaced curls, showing how sixteenth-century printers built page ornament from grotesque masks, strapwork and flourishes that a designer could adapt for display type or ornamental borders.
