El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha
A 1608 Madrid printing of Cervantes's Don Quixote, held by the University of Toronto's Robarts Library, whose pictures here are decorative woodcut initial letters of the kind printers set at chapter openings. The four shown are ornamented capitals D, E and F framed by scrolling foliate borders, a bird, and small buildings, cut in a sturdy black-and-cream woodblock style a designer could borrow for drop caps and monogram frames.
