Cinq livres de la maniere de nourrir et gouverner les enfans des leur naissance. Par M. Simon de Vallambert, Medecin de madame la Duchesse de Savoye et de Berry, et depuys peu de temps, de monseigneur le Duc d’Orleans,
Simon de Vallambert's 1565 Poitiers treatise on nursing and raising infants, written by a physician to the Duchess of Savoy and later the Duke of Orleans, is a medical text in French for parents and nurses. Its pages are dense black-letter type set in justified columns, with small woodcut-like headpieces and the occasional decorated initial, the sober layout suiting a designer's reference for early printed text blocks, running heads, and restrained period typography.
