Cartas
Cartas is a 1632 Portuguese printed letter collection issued in Lisbon by the printer Antonio Alvarez under the sovereign Philip III of Portugal. The pictures are woodcut decorative initials in a square frame, each filled with interlaced foliage, scrollwork, a face, a bird, or a small figure, and a designer might borrow their compact boxed-letter format and dense ornamental fill for a monogram or headline cap.
