Primera parte de la historia de d. Felippe el IIII. rey de las Españas
A 1631 Lisbon printing of Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses's history of Philip IV of Spain, printed by Pedro Craesbeeck for a Spanish-reading audience. The four pictures are typographic ornaments from its opening pages: a heraldic coat of arms with a crowned shield, a floral pendant with a face medallion, a dense strip of grotesque figures, and a large capital-letter display line reading QVAR ELAS. A designer could draw on the Baroque shield and the flourished initial capitals for period headers, borders, and monogram-style lettering.
