La spada di honore : libro primo delle Osseruazioni caualeresche
A 1672 Venetian treatise on chivalric honour and dueling, published by Paolo Balioni and written by Berlingiero Gessi and Lorenzo Tinti for gentlemen and fencers. Its pictures are four decorative initial letters, E, C, D and S, each framed in a border of stylised flowers, leaves and foliage, offering designers a compact model for ornamental letter-frames.
