The world encompassed by Sir Francis Drake. : Being his next voyage to that to Nombre de Dios, formerly imprinted;
The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake is a 1635 London account of Drake's circumnavigation, printed by E. P. for the bookseller Nicholas Bourne and offered for public sale. The pictures are small woodcut ornaments: strapwork bands with scrolling foliage, a sunburst, rosettes, cherubs and a grotesque mask, and a large initial letter framed by leafy borders. A designer could draw on their dense Renaissance-style scrollwork, symmetrical frames and decorative capitals for period borders.
