[Arbolayre :] Le grant herbier en françois

Le Caron, Pierre (Paris) · 72 pictures

This is a late fifteenth-century Paris printing of the French herbal Le grant herbier, issued by the printer Pierre Le Caron as an early illustrated natural-history book for lay readers. Its pictures are small woodcut plants in square frames, drawn with simple outlines, curling stems, and sparse leaves, with no shading, so a designer could borrow their economical line and botanical pattern for medieval-style decorative work.

Sciences et arts · Incunables · Incunabula

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