Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbour: out of the foure yeeres continuall trauell and discouerie ... of don Ferdinando de Soto ...
A 1609 London printing of an account of Hernando de Soto's Florida expedition, issued by Felix Kyngston for Matthew Lownes and sold in Pauls Churchyard, written for English readers by a Portuguese gentleman of Elvas. The pictures are historiated and ornamental woodcut initials, each a letter set in a square frame of dense foliage, scrollwork, grotesque birds and beasts, and cross-hatched grounds, and a designer could take from them the tight pattern-making of early printed capitals.
