O Godfredo, ou, Hierusalem libertada : poema heroyco
A 1682 Lisbon edition of Tasso's epic poem Gerusalemme liberata, rendered in Portuguese by André Rodrigues de Mattos and printed by Miguel Deslandes for a learned readership of poetry and history. The pictures are small decorative woodcut initials, mostly ornate C's framed by thick square borders of acanthus and flower sprigs, plus one F with leafy scrollwork, offering a designer compact models for framed monograms and historical letterpress ornament.
