A discourse and discouery of New-found-land, with many reasons to prooue how worthy and beneficiall a plantation may there be made, after a far better manner than now it is. : Together with the laying open of certaine enormities and abuses committed by some that trade to that countrey, and the meanes laid downe for reformation thereof.
A 1620 London treatise by Richard Whitbourne, printed by Felix Kyngston for William Barret, arguing for English settlement and trade in Newfoundland and addressed to the king's subjects. The pictures are decorative printer's ornaments: strapwork friezes with scrolling foliage, grotesque animals, and a large initial letter built from interlaced leaves and curls, cut in woodblock style. A designer could draw on their dense interlace, symmetrical scrollwork, and mix of beasts and foliage for borders, headers, and drop-cap letterforms.
