Storia de' monumenti di Napoli e degli architetti che gli edificavano
A Neapolitan architectural history from 1856 by Camillo Napoleone Sasso, printed in Naples by Federico Vitale and covering the city's monuments from the founding of the monarchy through the eighteenth century. Its title pages carry a dense border of ornamental scrollwork and rosettes, set in a plain, centred letterpress layout with spaced capitals and mixed roman and italic lines. A designer could take from it the formal typographic hierarchy and the repeating frame pattern, which suggest a restrained nineteenth-century Italian approach to decorative borders and display type.
