Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las islas i Tierra Firme del Mar Oceano
A 1601 Spanish chronicle by Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, printed in Madrid by the Royal Press, recounting Castilian deeds in the Indies and the Tierra Firme. The four pictures are decorated initial letters: an E with interlaced scrollwork in two repeated versions, and a large A framed by foliage, putti and grotesque masks. Designers can take from them the layered frame-and-scroll structure of early modern printed initials and their mix of acanthus curls with figural elements.
