Edict du roy pour la pacification des troubles de son royaume.
A 1616 royal edict of Louis XIII of France, printed in Paris by Frédéric Morel and Pierre Mettayer, printers to the king, and issued to calm civil unrest in the kingdom. The picture is a small printer's ornament, a decorative tailpiece or headpiece, showing a symmetrical flower-like rosette framed by curling black scrollwork on a cream paper ground. A designer could take from it the compact, mirrored geometry of early seventeenth-century French typographic ornament, useful for borders, corner pieces, or emblem-style motifs.
