Le gouvernement necessaire à chacun pour vivre longuement en santé, avec le gouvernement requis en l'usage des eaux minerales,...
A French medical treatise on healthy living and the use of mineral waters, written by Nicolas Abraham de La Framboisière and published in Paris in 1608 by Marc Orry for a lay reader seeking long life. Its pictures are letterpress pages dominated by large historiated initial letters, woodcut figures of a nude woman and grotesque beasts set in dense black ornament, which a designer could take as models for decorative drop caps and bold display lettering.
