Le medecin historial ou le parfait regime de vivre...
A 1652 French medical treatise on health and long life, attributed to Francis Bacon and printed in Paris by the widow of G. Loyson for readers of medicine. Its pages are plain letterpress text with a decorated initial letter set in a leafy foliage frame, and a printer's device and stamps, offering a designer typographic models of large drop caps, foliated ornament and classic French book layout.
