A treatise, of weights, mets and measvres of Scotland. With their qvantities, and trve foundation, and sundrie profitable observations, arising vpon everie one of them. Together with the art of metting, measuring & compting all sort of land with diverse tables
A 1624 Scottish handbook on weights, mets and measures and the practical art of surveying and computing land, written by Alexander Huntar and printed in Edinburgh by John Wreittoun for landowners, factors and measurers. The plates here are woodcut initial letters — T, A and Y set in dense foliate scrollwork rendered in coarse parallel hatching — usable as display capitals, ornament motifs or texture sources at small sizes.





























