The history of the world, commonly called the Naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus
Holland's 1634 English translation of Pliny the Elder's Natural History, printed in London by A. Islip for a general readership of scholars and natural-history readers. The pictures are woodcut decorative initial letters, the large C and H capitals framed by foliage, with scrolling leaves and flowers. A designer could take from them a model for ornamental capitals built from interlaced vines, acanthus-like leaves and hatched shading.
