Erster Theil.
Erster Theil is a German book, likely an 18th-century printed work whose title text is partly visible, held by a contributing library. Its pictures are small repeated woodcut printers' ornaments: a rococo cartouche with scrolled acanthus and laurel branches framing an oval with a radiating eye, a winged eagle or bird over an anchor, and a Latin motto around the rim. A designer could take the symmetrical scroll-and-laurel framing and the sunburst emblem as reusable decorative devices.
