Factum,
A 1660 French legal memorandum (factum) by the missionary Raymond Breton, printed in Paris and addressed to a French readership concerned with the Antilles. The picture is a large historiated initial L, framed by carved leaves and set beside columns of French text, showing the book's ornamental letterpress. A designer can take from it the dense foliate border around a single capital letter, with leaves wrapping the corners and the letter's stem built from layered carved strokes.
