The castel of helth corrected and in some places augmented
The Castel of Helth is a 1541 medical treatise by Sir Thomas Elyot, printed in London by Thomas Berthelet for a general readership seeking health advice. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each a letter framed by foliage with a figure or animal worked into the letterform, offering a designer compact decorative capitals with Tudor-era character.




