Discorsi d'intorno a tumori ed ossi frontespiziali
A 1585 Italian medical treatise on tumours by Niccolò Viti, printed in Rome by Alessandro Gardano and Francesco Coattini, with discourses in Italian text set in dense roman type. The pictures are woodcut decorated initials, including a large historiated letter framed by carved grotesque figures and scrollwork, which a designer could use as a model for ornamental capitals and frames built from interlaced beasts and foliage.
