The post of the world. : VVherin is contayned the antiquities and originall of the most famous cities in Europe. With their trade and traficke. With their wayes and distance of myles, from country to country. With the true and perfect knowledge of their coynes, the places of their mynts: with al their martes and fayres. And the raignes of all the kinges of England. : A booke right necessary and profitable for all sortes of persons, the like before this tyme not imprinted
The Post of the World is a 1576 English travel and reference book by Richard Verstegan, printed in London by Thomas East for general readers wanting guidance on European cities, trade, coinage and distances. The picture is a woodcut decorated initial A in a square frame, with scrolling foliage, a central shield bearing a fleur-de-lis, and a line of running text beneath, a style a designer could borrow for ornamental capitals and border framing.
