Le dictionaire des huict langages : c'est à sçavoir grec, latin, flamen, françois, espagnol, italien, anglois, & aleman : fort utile & necessaire pour tous studieux & amateurs des lettres. Nouvellement reveu & corrigé.
A multilingual dictionary printed in Lyon in 1573 by Michel Jouve, offering word lists in eight languages for students and lovers of letters. The pictured page is a typeset table of contents for the first book, with a decorative strapwork border, a large historiated initial D, and a library discard stamp over the text. A designer might take the ornamental capital, the swash-free roman caps spaced across the title line, and the dense two-column layout as models for early modern typography.
