Les Institutions chirurgiques de Jean Tagault,...nouvellement traduictes de latin en francoys...
Les Institutions chirurgiques by Jean Tagault, a 1549 French surgical textbook printed in Lyon by Guillaume Rouille, translated from Latin for French-speaking surgeons and students. Its pages are dense blocks of black-letter type with ornate decorative initials, a printed ownership label of the Paris surgeons' academy, and a woodcut of a surgical instrument, offering designers tight typographic texture, historic ornament and engraved line detail.
