Discours de l'éstat des fideles après la mort
A 1646 French theological treatise on the state of the faithful after death, by Moïse Amyraut, printed at Saumur by Jean Lesnier for a Protestant readership. The three pictures are woodcut printer's ornaments: a decorated initial E, a decorated initial M with a face and foliage, and a small architectural vignette of arches, columns and a flowering plant. A designer might take from them the dense, hand-cut linework of early modern French initials and the way foliage is worked into letterforms.
