Nouveau chasse peste
A 1630 French medical treatise by Marcellin Bompart, printed in Paris by Philippe Gaultier, aimed at readers seeking guidance on plague prevention in the seventeenth century. Its pictures are small woodcut and engraved ornaments: a heraldic shield of fleurs-de-lis under a mitre and crozier, a central grotesque mask flanked by fruit and foliage, and a bookplate with a tree in an oval cartouche. A designer could draw on their compact symmetry, scrollwork and heraldic framing for period-style borders and emblems.
