The foreste or Collection of histories, no lesse profitable, then pleasant and necessarie,
The Foreste, a 1571 English compilation of histories, printed in London by John Kyngston for William Jones, is a collection of classical and natural-history extracts in dense black-letter text. Its pictures are large decorated initial letters, ornate woven foliage and scrollwork set against dense type, useful to a designer for historic capitals and border-style ornament.
