Dialogos militares, : de la formacion, è informacion de personas, instrumentos, y cosas necessarias para el buen vso de la guerra.
A 1583 Spanish military treatise, Dialogos militares by Diego García de Palacio, printed in Mexico City by Pedro Ocharte for readers in New Spain on drilling soldiers, fortification, and wartime equipment. The four pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, each a large letter V set in a square frame of interlaced scrollwork, leaves, and fleurons, with the opening lines of text beside them. A designer could draw on their dense, symmetrical frame ornament and the strong contrast between cut-out letterform and filigree border for monograms, headers, or drop caps.
