Edoardi VVottoni Oxoniensis De differentiis animalium libri decem ...
A 1552 Latin zoology treatise by Edward Wotton, printed in Paris by Michel de Vascosan, with decorative initial letters that open its chapters. The four pictures are woodcut historiated and foliate initials: a plain capital framed by strapwork, a large C built from scrolling acanthus and flowers with a crown, and a C holding two wild-men supporters beneath a coat of arms. A designer could draw on their dense leafy scrollwork and the way the letter forms bend around the ornament.
