Hollandtsche Mercurius : behelzende het ghedenckweerdighste in Christenrijck voor-ghevallen, binnen 't gantsche jaer ..
The Hollandtsche Mercurius is a Dutch-language annual news compilation printed in Haarlem in 1650 by Pieter Casteleyn, gathering the year's notable events in Christendom for a Dutch reading public. Its pictures are small woodcut heraldic devices, historic-initial blocks with scenes, and a medallion portrait of Archduke Ferdinand Charles, showing how period printers framed news with emblems, coats of arms and decorative capital letters that a designer might draw on for heraldic or early-modern typographic motifs.
