Aesopi fabvlae cvm vvlgari interpretatione : et figuris nouissime omni cura, & diligentia emendatae
This is a 1557 Aesop's fables collection printed in Brescia, Italy, by Damianus Turlinus, with an Italian vernacular text and woodcut illustrations for a general reading public. The pictures are small black-and-white woodcuts set into dense black-letter columns, showing animals such as a wolf, a fox, a monkey and a lamb in simple outdoor scenes. A designer could take from them the compact vocabulary of early woodcut animal drawing, with bold outlines, hatching and figures framed by text.
