La fortificatione, guardia, difesa, et espugnatione delle fortezze esperimentata in diuerse guerre
This is an Italian military treatise on fortification, siege warfare and defence, printed in Venice in 1624 by Evangelista Deuchino and written by Francesco Tensini with engravings by Odoardo Fialetti and Philipp Sadeler. The pictures are small woodcut-style decorative initial letters, each an ornate capital E or similar letter framed by scrolling foliage, flowers and acanthus leaves, with a rose-like blossom in the lower panels. A designer might take from them the dense, hand-cut botanical ornament and the way a large letter is built from interlaced vines and blossoms.
