Factum pour messire Antoine Furetière, abbé de Chalivoy, contre quelques-uns de l'Académie française
A 1688 legal pamphlet printed in Amsterdam by H. Desbordes, in French, in which the abbé Antoine Furetière argues his dispute with members of the Académie française, aimed at a general reading public of the period. The four pictures are small woodcut ornaments: three vases of flowers in a near-identical pattern and a block of interlaced scrolls with a pendant finial, typical of printers' tailpieces and headpieces that fill gaps between text. A designer might take from them the compact symmetry of a vase with spreading foliage and the way a repeated scroll grid works as a border or divider.
