Pseudodoxia epidemica : or, enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths
Pseudodoxia epidemica is a 1658 London treatise by the physician Sir Thomas Browne, printed for Edward Dod, examining popular errors and received beliefs. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated and decorative initial letters, mostly capitals I, T and H framed by foliate scrollwork, showing a designer how compact letterform ornament built from vine stems, leaves and knotwork can fill a block.
