Il Cinna : tragedia
An Italian edition of Pierre Corneille's tragedy Il Cinna, printed in Bologna by Longhi, with the author dated 1606-1684 and the text aimed at readers of Italian drama. The four pictures are small letterpress ornaments: a woodcut profile bust in an oval cartouche flanked by fruit-and-foliage swags and scrolls, plus a floral woodcut initial whose blossoms and leaves sit inside a square frame beside the text, which a designer could borrow for compact decorative headers or capital letters.
