The pleasant historie of the conquest of the VVeast India, now called New Spayne, atchieued by the vvorthy prince Hernando Cortes ...
A 1578 London English translation by Thomas Nicholas of Francisco López de Gómara's account of Hernán Cortés's conquest of Mexico, printed by Henry Bynneman for an English reading public. The pictures are text pages with large decorative woodcut initials, letters built from interlaced foliage, scrollwork and small animals, set beside dense black-letter type with ornamental capitals and marginal rules that a designer could borrow for display lettering.
