Edict et declaration de Monseigneur le duc de Mayenne, & le Conseil general de la saincte Vnion : pour reünir tous vrais chrestiens françois à la deffense & conseruation de l'Eglise Catholique, Apostolique & Romaine, & manutention de l'Estat Royal
A 1589 French edict issued under the Duke of Mayenne and the Holy League council, printed in Paris by Nicolas Niuelle and Rolin Thierry, addressed to French Catholics to defend the Church and royal state. The four pictures are woodcut printers' ornaments: a historiated initial C with a robed figure, a grotesque mask with foliage swags, a leafy decorated initial P, and a strip of birds and flowers, offering a designer ready-made letterforms and border motifs for period-style work.
