Abbregé chronologique, ou Extraict de l'histoire de France
Abbregé chronologique is a 1676 French history of France written by François Eudes de Mézeray and published in Paris by Louis Billaine, held in the John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library. The pictures are small woodcut and engraved devices: three repeated decorative initial L blocks showing a sunburst with a human face inside a square frame, and one bust portrait of a young man in a cap and embroidered collar, which suggests a designer could borrow the rayed sun initial for a historical or ornamental heading.
