Why vector graphics?

A for acanthus

Scanned from the Bellerophon Press original

I thought I would start my learning the easy way, with the simplified black-and-white outline already made by the Bellerophon artist, using the letter A, which was made of a peacock and an acanthus leaf.

SpellCatcher's dictionary tells me that acanthus is a prickly-leaved Mediterranean herb - I always wondered ...