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Admirable et prodigieuse mort de Henry de Valoys.

Tantillon, Louis, active 1578-1592, bookseller · 1589 · A Lyon : Chez Loys Tantillon, libraire demeurant en rue Merciere deuant la-Masse dort, 1589 · 2 pictures

A 1589 French pamphlet printed in Lyon by the bookseller Louis Tantillon, recounting the death of King Henry III of France for a readership of French readers. Its pictures are small black-ink woodcuts: a historiated initial C enclosing a lion-like figure beside dense black-letter text, and a decorative headpiece of a winged face with feathered plumes, scrolls and tassels, offering a designer models for ornamental initials and headers.

Henry III, King of France, 1551-1589 · Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610

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