Philalethes
A 1474 Nuremberg incunable by the humanist Maffeo Vegio, printed by Regiomontanus, a dialogue in Latin with a Philalethes character for scholars and collectors. Its pages pair dense black-letter text with large decorative initials and a hand-coloured woodcut of two figures in a landscape, with a red-winged devil, a pale shrub, and a small hillside house, offering designers compact models of early printed page layout and woodcut figuration.
