Seer cort verhael vande destructie van d'Indien
A Dutch-language 1578 account by Bartolomé de las Casas of the destruction of the Indies, printed in Antwerp or elsewhere in the Low Countries and aimed at a general readership concerned with Spanish colonial cruelty. Its pages are set in dense black-letter type with large decorated initial letters, and each opens with a historiated initial showing a robed figure in a foliate frame, so a designer might take the strong initial-letter framing and the compact blocks of heavy type as models for display typography.
