The beginning, continvance, and decay of estates: vvherein are handled many notable questions concerning the establishment of empires and monarchies
A 1606 London political treatise by René de Lucinge, translated by John Finet and printed for John Bill, examining the rise and fall of states and empires, with Turkish government as a subject. The two pictures are vertical woodcut border strips of the early seventeenth century, with dense scrollwork, foliage, and a grotesque face at top, printed in dark ink on tan paper. A designer could draw on their tightly packed, symmetrical bands of acanthus-like scrolls and animal motifs as models for narrow decorative frames or column borders.
