Cl. Verderii Peripetasis epigrammatum variorum latius oratione soluta expressorum : : eiusdem Bombycum metamorphosis, ecloga cui titulus Aphtarques, & alia poematia
A Latin verse collection of epigrams and poems printed in Paris in 1581 by Mathurin Prévost, a Parisian printer, and aimed at scholarly and literary readers of Latin. Its pictures are letterpress decorations: a large historiated initial G, an ornate woodcut B with foliage scrolling around its stem, a symmetrical strapwork ornament, and a decorated R opening a block of verse. A designer might take the dense interlaced foliage, strapwork cartouches, and the contrast between lettering and ornament as models for display type and page borders.
