A speech delivered by Sir Francis Bacon, in the lower House of Parliament quinto Iacobi, concerning the article of naturalization of the Scottish nation
A 1641 London printing of a parliamentary speech by Francis Bacon, delivered to the Commons in the fifth year of James I on naturalising the Scots, held at the University of Toronto's Fisher Library. The picture is a page of dense black-letter text opening with a large ornamental initial, showing a single decorative capital set in tightly packed roman type. A designer might take from it the interplay of an intricate foliate letterform against plain, even text blocks, a model for drop caps and early modern typographic colour.
