The pleasant historie of the conquest of the West India, : now called New Spaine. atchieued by the most woorthie prince Hernando Cortes ...
A 1596 London English translation of López de Gómara's account of Hernán Cortés's conquest of New Spain, printed by Thomas Creede, and aimed at an English reading public. The pictures are small black-letter pages dominated by large ornamental woodcut initial letters with foliate scrollwork, set beside dense columns of type, which a designer could use as models for decorative capitals and early modern page layout.
