Tibullus cum. commentario Achillis Statii Lusitani
A Latin edition of Tibullus with a commentary by Achilles Statius, printed in Venice in 1567 at the Manutius press for a scholarly readership. The two pictures are printer's devices: a crowned circle of medallions around a lion with an owl and a hedgehog-like beast below, and an anchor with a dolphin coiled around it bearing the letters AL DVS. A designer might take the compact emblem format, with a central motif framed by repeated medallions, and the anchor-and-dolphin mark as a model for a bold, symmetrical publisher's logo.
