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Catalogus librorum bibliothecæ Raphaelis Tricheti du Fresne

Trichet du Fresne, Raphael, 1611-1661 · 1662 · Parisiis, : apud viduam & hæredes, Ruë du Mail. · 3 pictures

A 1662 Paris library catalogue compiled by Raphael Trichet du Fresne, a seventeenth-century French collector, and printed by the widow and heirs of its publisher on the Rue du Mail for scholars and book buyers. Its three pictures are a woodcut cartouche of two embracing putti above a fruit swag and a printed armorial shield bearing the motto GAUDEO, the first two showing the same design at slightly different scales. A designer might take from them the symmetrical scrollwork, ribbon ends and hanging fruit of Renaissance ornament, and the heraldic shield with its banner for a crest or label.

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