Discours des eaux chaudes et bains de Plombieres divisez en deux traictez...
A 1615 French medical treatise on the hot springs and baths of Plombières, written by Dominique Berthemin and printed at Nancy by Jacob Garnich for physicians and readers of medicine. The picture is a small decorative woodcut initial N, with a diagonal stroke crossing an ornate frame of scrolls, leaves and interlace, set beside the opening words of the text. A designer might take from it the dense, hand-cut strapwork and foliate filling typical of early seventeenth-century printed letters.
