Edict du roy, pour la pacification des troubles de son royaume : verifié en Parlement le 13. juin, 1616.
A 1616 royal edict of Louis XIII of France, printed in Paris by F. Morel and P. Mettayer, addressed to the realm's subjects and parliament to settle civil unrest. The two pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: a royal coat of arms with crown and fleur-de-lis set within a wreath of knotted strapwork, and an historiated initial L containing a seated figure amid foliage and scrolling vines. A designer could draw on their dense, crisp black line work and the contrast between formal heraldry and lively decorative framing for emblems or title-page borders.
