Le secret de retarder la vieillesse ou l'art de rajeunir et de conserver la santé, selon les maximes des plus célèbres autheurs de la médecine.
A 1668 French medical treatise on delaying old age and keeping health, written by Pierre Dalicourt and printed in Paris by the widow and son of Gervais Alliot for a general readership. The pictures are letterpress pages in a dense seventeenth-century italic and roman face, with a flourished initial, a verse dedication, a printed title page, and a small engraved portrait of a chancellor with a Latin-style caption, offering a designer clear models for classical book typography and framed portrait layout.
