Dissertatio inauguralis sistens theses medico chimicas de vero naturae et artis principio, pro medicina catholica ... / autor Joh. Sam. Schvertner.
A Latin medical dissertation by Johann Samuel Schvertner, printed at Rinteln in 1730, on chemical medicine and the true principle of nature and art. Its two pictures are a large ornamental woodcut initial P set in a dense interlace of scrolls and a horizontal border strip of repeated stylised rosettes and urn motifs. A designer could take from them a model for a historical decorated capital and a repeating border band with strong black-and-white contrast.
