Entretiens sur les vies et sur les ouvrages des plus excellens peintres anciens et modernes
A 1682 Paris edition by André Félibien, published by Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, containing dialogues on the lives and works of ancient and modern painters, written for a learned readership of art lovers. Its pictures are small printed historiated and decorative initials, one with a flowering stem, one with a floral urn, and one with an artist's palette and brushes, carved in woodcut-style line work that a designer could borrow for ornamental capitals and vignettes.
