L'Idée parfaicte de la philosophie hermétique, ou l'abrégé de la theorie et practique de la pierre des philosophes...
A 1630 French treatise on hermetic philosophy and the philosopher's stone, printed in Paris with no named printer, aimed at alchemical readers and held in a Paris university health library. The three pictures are small printer's ornaments: a woodcut initial L wrapped in leafy foliage, a symmetrical cartouche of flowers, swags and a central face, and a letterpress title block whose heavy serif capitals and stamp are the main visual interest. A designer could take the interlaced foliage and the symmetrical cartouche as models for decorative borders and monogram frames.
