Epistre presentee au tresexcellent et invincible roy de Pologne, filz & frere des roys de France, à sa bien venue à Paris
A 1573 French printed epistle by Antoine Couillard, published in Lyon by Benoist Rigaud, addressed to Henry III of France on his welcome to Paris as king of Poland. The pictures are small woodcut devices: a crowned heraldic shield with eagles and a rider, and a historiated initial N with a seated figure set beside dense black-letter text. A designer could take from them the compact vocabulary of sixteenth-century French heraldry and the framed woodcut initial as a model for emblematic letterforms.
