L'Académie de l'Art poétique [microforme]

Deimier, Pierre de, ca. 1570-ca. 1618 · 1610 · Paris : J. de Bordeaux · 3 pictures

A French treatise on poetics by Pierre de Deimier, published in Paris in 1610 by J. de Bordeaux, and aimed at readers of French verse. Its three pictures are decorative printer's ornaments: a leafy scrolled headpiece, a grotesque mask flanked by winged figures in a frieze, and a large initial M with foliate flourishes beside italic text. A designer could take from them the interplay of acanthus scrolls, grotesque faces and calligraphic capitals typical of early seventeenth-century French typography.

Poésie française

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