Sermoens
Sermoens is a Portuguese collection of sermons by Eusebio de Mattos, printed in Lisbon in 1694 by Miguel Deslandes for the bookseller Antonio Leyte Pereyra, for a devout reading public. The pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a flowering urn with broad leaves and a large decorative initial E framed by stylised foliage and tulip-like blossoms. A designer might take from them the bold black-and-white contrast of carved line and the compact, symmetrical structure suited to borders and drop caps.
