A survey of the great dukes state of Tuscany. : In the yeare of our Lord 1596
A survey of the great dukes state of Tuscany is a 1605 travel description of Tuscany by Robert Dallington, printed in London by George Eld for the publisher Edward Blount, aimed at an English readership. Its pictures are small printed ornaments: a scrolled acanthus cartouche, a heraldic shield with a crested griffin, a foliate frieze with grotesque masks, and a decorated initial B. A designer could draw on their dense, symmetrical scrollwork and early seventeenth-century woodcut linework for borders, headers and heraldic motifs.
