Delle misure d'ogni genere antiche, e moderne : con note letterarie, e fisico-matematiche, a giovamento di qualunque architetto; trattato
An 1760 Italian treatise on ancient and modern measures, written by Girolamo Francesco Cristiani and published by Bossini, aimed at architects and containing literary and physico-mathematical notes. The pictures are engraved decorative pages: a classical frontispiece with cherubs and an inscription, and large historiated initial letters such as a skeletal figure with a scythe, a lion-riding putto, and a ruined arched gateway in an oval frame. A designer could draw on their ornamental letterforms, putti, and architectural ruin framing.
