Le medecin malgré lui, comedie
A French comedy by Molière, published around 1700 in Paris or nearby, printed for a general reading audience of the period. Its two pictures are woodcut-style typographic ornaments: a horizontal border of two facing cherubic figures among scrolling foliage and a central urn, and a corner piece of acanthus scrolls ending in a grotesque face with a plume-like crest. A designer might borrow the symmetrical framing, the foliage scrolls and the grotesque mask for decorative borders or headers.
