De l'excellence de la langue françoise [microforme]
A 1683 French-language treatise printed in Paris by Bilaine, written by François Charpentier on the excellence of the French language and meant for a learned reading public. The one picture is a printer's ornament: a bouquet of stylized flowers rising from a footed urn, set beside a library stamp and the running heading 'Tome Second'. A designer could take from it a compact, symmetrical floral vase motif suited to dividers, tailpieces or vignettes in period-style typography.
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