Traicté du tabac, ou nicotiane, panacee, petun : autrement herbe a la Reyne....
A treatise on tobacco, printed in French at Lyon in 1626 by the publisher Barthelemy Vincent, and dedicated to a royal treasury official, Monsieur de Merle. The pictures are letterpress title and dedication pages in roman capitals and small caps, plus one engraved diagram of a tobacco water pipe with lettered parts. A designer might take its dense serif typesetting, centred dedication layout and the precise labelled engraving of an early smoking apparatus.
