Caius Plinius Marco suo salutem ..
This is a 15th-century Latin printing of Pliny the Elder's Natural History, issued in Venice by Thomas de Blavis of Alexandria, and aimed at scholars and readers of classical learning. The pages are dense black-letter text in two columns with large decorated initial letters and red-and-blue rubrics, and the printer's crowned device with a T and A monogram shows a bookplate-like mark a designer could adapt for emblems.
