Historica descriptio complectens vitam, ac res gestas beatissimi viri Gulielmi Wicami ..
A Latin biography of the medieval bishop William of Wykeham, written by Thomas Martin and printed at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford in 1690 for scholars and churchmen. The pictures are decorative printer's ornaments: two large woodcut initial letters, one a foliate I and one a J, set in scrolling foliage frames, a rounded engraved G with radiating fronds, and a horizontal running band of stylised scrolls. A designer could draw on their dense, interlaced scrollwork and bold letterforms for borders, monograms and headers.
