The secrets of the reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont : containing excellent remedies against diverse diseases, wounds, and other accidents, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, dying, colours, fusions, and meltings ...
A 1595 London printing by Peter Short for Thomas Wight of William Ward's English version of Girolamo Ruscelli's book of secrets, offering medical remedies, distillations, perfumes and dye recipes to apothecaries and household readers. The 31 pictures are worn woodcut initials: capitals filled with curling vines, buds and hatched leaves, plus a square framed letter flanked by beasts, usable as drop caps, borders or scroll ornament.
