L'art de vivre longuement sous le nom de Medee...
This 1633 French medical treatise, published in Paris by Jean Jost and written by physician Pierre Jaquelot under the name of Medea, offers advice on long life, addressed in its dedication to Monsieur de Lorme, physician to the king. The pictures are plain letterpress pages of dense roman type with decorative initial capitals, small italic Latin tags, and printed approbation text, with no illustrations; a designer might take from them the rhythm of seventeenth-century French typesetting, its capitals, and its centred dedication lines.
