Il givoco de gli scacchi
A 1584 Venetian chess treatise, Il givoco de gli scacchi, by Ruy López de Segura with Giovanni Domenico Tarsia, printed by Cornelio Arriuabene for chess players and readers of Italian. The pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, framed letters C, G and H with a winged figure, a seated or standing man, and distant landscapes with towers and hills, offering a designer compact figurative letterforms that frame text within a square border.
