Declaratiõ & interpretation dv Roy svr l'Edict de la pacification des troubles pour le faict de la religion : publié en la Cour de Parlement à Paris, le XX Decembre, 1563.
A 1563 royal declaration issued by Charles IX of France and printed in Paris by Robert Estienne, printer to the King, explaining the edict that paused the religious wars between Catholics and Huguenots. The picture is a decorative printer's ornament: a large engraved initial letter framed by fruit, vegetables and foliage, with a central cartouche and tendril scrollwork. A designer could take from it the dense, symmetrical border of produce and leaves around a single capital letter, a model for ornamental framing in a historical text block.
