M. Blundeuile his exercises, containing eight treatises, : the titles whereof are set downe in the next printed page: which treatises are verie necessarie to be read and learned of all yoong gentlemen that have not bene exercised in such disciplines, and yet are desirous to haue knowledge as well in cosmographie, astronomie, and geographie, as also in the arte of nauigation, in which arte it is impossible to profite without the helpe of these, or such like instructions.
Thomas Blundeville's 1597 English manual of eight treatises on cosmography, astronomy, geography and navigation, printed in London by John Windet for young gentlemen learning those arts. Its pictures are the typographic ornaments of the page: a heraldic cartouche strapwork band, a decorated initial T, a tiled arabesque border and a square initial H with interlaced corners, all set between lines of text, offering a designer period borders, initials and fleuron patterns for editorial layouts.
