Le grand dispensaire medicinal, trad. De latin en François par Loys de Serres
A 1624 French translation of a medical dispensary by Jean de Renou, printed in Lyon by Pierre Rigaud for apothecaries and physicians of France. Its pages are dense black-letter text in columns, with woodcut title-page borders showing a gardener among planted beds, an ornamental panel of fruit bowls and scrollwork, and an oval portrait stamp. A designer might take the compact woodcut ornament and the bold framed title-page layouts as models for emblematic borders and early modern print decoration.
