Edict du roy sur la reformation du luxe de ce royaume, procedant de la somptuosité des habits, port de perles, pierreries, dorures, & autres excessiuitez.
A 1609 royal edict printed at Aix by I. Tholosan, issued in the name of the French crown to curb extravagant dress, pearls, jewels and gilding, and addressed to the kingdom's subjects. The two pictures are small printed devices: a woodcut border of grotesque masks, scrolling foliage and interlace at the head of a section, and a coat of arms with fleurs-de-lis and a crown set in a laurel wreath and a strapwork cartouche. A designer might take from them the compact, symmetrical structure of early seventeenth-century printers' ornaments and heraldic emblems for title pages and seals.
