Ivsti LipsI De constantia libri dvo : qui alloquium præciperuè continent in publicis malis
A 1584 Latin treatise on constancy and conduct of life by Justus Lipsius, printed in Antwerp by Christophorus Plantinus for a scholarly readership. The pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, the L, S, N and A shown here, each framed by dense scrolling foliage, with a designer able to draw on their interlaced acanthus, grotesque birds and vine-filled letterforms for ornamental capitals.
