Amsterdams vuur-praetje, : van 'teen ende 'tander datter nu om gaet
A 1649 Dutch pamphlet printed in Amsterdam, t'Amstelredam, by Claes Pietersz, a bookseller, addressed to a general Dutch readership and concerned with the West India Company's Brazil campaigns. The only picture is the printer's ornament above the imprint: a scrolled foliate border with pendant motifs, and a circular emblem of a compass and square enclosing a five-pointed star, set over the city name in capitals. A designer could take from it the dense, symmetrical scroll-and-pendant border and the framed emblem as a model for a cartouche or letterpress header.
