Franc et libre discovrs, : ov, advis avx depvtez des trois Estats, pour la Reformation d'iceux.
A 1614 French political pamphlet printed in Paris by Anthoine du Breuil, addressed to the deputies of the Estates General, the three estates of France, and offered as a frank and free advisory discourse on reforming them. The pictures are woodcut decorative elements: a headpiece with a lion mask between foliate scrolls, and historiated initial letters M, I and A, one containing a grotesque figure and another a small robed man among curling acanthus-like foliage, all printed in a dense black ink on a yellowed page, giving a designer a model for carved ornament, lettering and early modern printers' decoration.





