Obras
A 1669 Lisbon edition of the collected poems of Luís de Camões, printed by Antonio Craesbeeck de Mello, printer to the Royal House, for a Portuguese readership of 16th-century verse. The picture is a close view of a printed page: a large decorative initial N opens a glossed stanza in roman type with an italic first line, set in tight, evenly spaced letterpress columns, with a faint ghosted letterform showing through from the reverse side that a designer could use as texture.
