Tomus primus.
Tomus primus is a volume of printed text, but the record gives no maker, date or place, so the pictures alone are the evidence. The four engravings are ornamental head-pieces or tailpieces set into the page, built from scrolling acanthus-like flourishes, and the first three repeat the same central emblem of a helmet, shield, crossed weapons, laurel branches and a crowned cartouche. A designer could draw on their symmetrical, heavy scrollwork as a template for a cartouche, border or heraldic crest.
