The discoverie of the large, rich, and bewtiful empyre of Guiana, with a relation of the great and golden citic of Manoa (which the Spanyards call El Dorado) and of the provinces of Emeria, Arromaia, Amapaia, and other countries...performed in the yeare 1595. by Sir W. Ralegh knight, captaine of her Maiesties Guard.
Walter Raleigh's 1596 account of his 1595 voyage to Guiana in search of El Dorado, printed in London by Robert Robinson for an English readership interested in exploration. The pictures are woodcut headpieces, a decorative strapwork frieze with grotesque figures, and a historiated initial T with a seated figure reading, showing how Renaissance printers built ornament from scrolls, masks and foliage.
