The worlde, or an historicall description of the most famous kingdomes and common-weals, therein. : Relating their scituations, manners ...
A 1601 London geography book by Giovanni Botero, printed by Edm. Bollifant for John Jaggard, describing the world's famous kingdoms and commonwealths for an English readership. Its pictures are woodcut printers' initials and decorative headpieces: a flourished capital I with foliage, a historiated H framing a bearded figure with a sword, and a strip of confronted beasts in scrolls. Designers can draw on their dense, carved scrollwork and symmetrical border ornament for Renaissance-style lettering and frames.
