Agriculturae encomium
A sixteenth-century Latin book in praise of agriculture, printed in Paris in 1539 by C. Wechel and attributed to Robertus Britannus, with a printer's or owner's emblem as its illustration. The picture is a brown woodcut-style design: a roundel of a standing figure with a vine-wreathed border of grape clusters and leaves, a ribbon inscribed A L S, and stacked books at the base, a tidy model for a framed emblematic device with a classical, botanical motif.
