L'usage de la glace, de la neige et du froid
A 1671 French medical treatise on the use of ice, snow and cold, printed in Paris by Thomas Moette and held by the Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de santé. The single picture is a dedication page in a small serif typeface, with a large decorated initial M, a dedicatee heading in spaced capitals and a circular oval stamp bearing a bearded profile and the word Hippocrates. A designer could take its restrained letterpiece hierarchy, the framed historiated initial and the ornamental seal as models for a classical, scholarly title page.
