Edict du roy, sur la pacification des troubles de ce royaume ... Auec les Articles particuliers interuenus sur iceluy ...
A 1644 royal edict printed in Paris by A. Estienne, issued by the French crown to settle civil unrest and laid out for public readership. The two pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a crowned heraldic shield framed by a wreath and shells, and a decorated initial H with a grotesque figure set among acanthus-like scrollwork. A designer could take from them the formal vocabulary of 17th-century French heraldry and the framed, symmetrical ornament used to open official print.
