A briefe description of the whole worlde. : Wherein is particularly described all the monarchies, empires and kingdomes of the same with their academies. Newly augmented and enlarged; with their seueralitles and scituations thereunto adioyning
A briefe description of the whole worlde is a 1608 London geography book by George Abbot, printed by R. Bradock for the bookseller John Browne and sold in Fleet Street, aimed at general English readers. Both pictures are the same horizontal printer's ornament, a central mask flanked by scrolling acanthus leaves and spirals, cut in woodblock and set into the page as a decorative tailpiece a designer could adapt as a border or divider.
