A summarie and true discourse of Sir Francis Drakes VVest Indian voyage. : VVherein were taken, the townes of Saint Iago, Sancto Domingo, Cartagena and Saint Augustine. : With geographicall mappes exactly describing each of the townes with their scituations, and the manner of the armies approaching to the winning of them
A summarie and true discourse of Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage is a 1596 English account by Walter Bigges, printed in London for William Ponsonby, recounting Drake's campaign against Spanish towns in the Caribbean and Florida. Its pictures are decorative woodcut headpieces and an initial letter, built from scrolling foliage, grotesque masks and symmetrical cartouches, offering a designer ready models for ornamental borders, panels and drop-cap letterforms.
