Alonso moço de muchos amos
Alonso moço de muchos amos is a Spanish picaresque novel by Jerónimo de Alcalá Yáñez y Ribera, printed in Barcelona in 1625 by Esteban Liberós for Mateo Menescal. The pictures are small printed type ornaments: a decorated woodcut initial letter, and a repeated emblem of two seated figures holding branches above a shield with scrolled foliage. A designer might take from them the compact, symmetrical logic of early modern printers' ornaments, with a framed capital letter and a mirrored crest that could inspire heraldic or monogram layouts.
