[Opera Francisci Baronis de Vervlamio ... Tomvs primvs; qui continet De dignitate & augmentis scientiarum, libros IX ..
A 1623 London folio printed at the Haviland press, the first volume of Francis Bacon's collected works, edited by William Rawley, on the dignity and growth of the sciences and on logic, made for scholars and readers of learned Latin. The four pictures are woodcut decorative initials, some framed with leafy scrollwork and one historiated with a figure and foliage, showing how early printers built letters from vines, acanthus curls and hatched shading that a designer could borrow for display capitals.
