La chymie charitable et facile, en faveur des dames. par damoiselle M.M.
Marie Meurdrac's 1656 French chemistry treatise, published in Paris for lay readers, especially women, and written in plain language rather than Latin. The sole picture is a page of dense black-letter-style French text opening with a large decorative historiated initial B, its ornate scrollwork and foliate curls a clear model for display capitals and drop caps.
