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01 Titlepage
to Edward Hawes, Trayterous Percyes & Catesbys prosopopeia
, Stafford, London 1606.
02 Antonio
de Sousa de Macedo, Lusitania Liberata ,published in
London in 1645 as a support to the claim of the Duke of Braganza to the
title of John IV of Portugal. The elaborate and hermetic titlepage is
the work of the engraver John Droeshout.
03 Titlepage to the sumptuously printed text of the Royal Law of Frederick
III, King of Denmark, in 1665 , Lex Regia det er; Den Souveraine
Konge-lov ,Copenhagen 1709. A rampaging elephant with troop carrier
thunders across the bottom panel.
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 Hobbes' Leviathan 1651
Cortes second letter
to Emperor Charles V 1522
Sir
Anthony Law, an early English law book, perhaps printed by Wynken de
Worde, 1516
PIETRO
CHIARI, titlepage to his L'Isole delle Fortuna, a utopian work of 1774 |
