Vindiciae contra tyrannos, sive, De principis in populum populique in principem legitima potestate
A 1579 political treatise on the lawful limits of rulers, printed in Basel under a pseudonymous Edinburgh imprint and attributed to Hubert Languet, aimed at a learned readership of statesmen and scholars. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials: one shows three men in dress of the period working around a barrel or vat, the other a letter H filled with a grotesque mask and interlaced foliage, grapes and scrollwork, offering designers compact, decorative initial-letter models.
