Lusitania liberata ab injusto Castellanorum dominio : restituta legitimo principi serenissimo Joanni IV
A 1645 Latin political treatise by Antonio de Sousa de Macedo, printed in London by Richard Heron and written to support the Portuguese claim to the throne for King John IV. The pictures are woodcut printers' ornaments: a decorative initial C and repeated horizontal strapwork friezes with scrolling acanthus, masks and putti. A designer could take from them the dense, symmetrical border and headpiece vocabulary of seventeenth-century letterpress.
