Eight bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre
Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre is a 1634 London translation of Thucydides' history of the Greek war, translated by Thomas Hobbes and printed for Richard Mynne for an English reading public. Its pictures are small printed ornaments: headers and a large decorated initial built from scrolling foliage, grotesque masks and winged figures, cut in a dense, symmetrical woodcut style that a designer could adapt for borders, dividers, or drop caps.
