Grammaire françoise, rapportée au langage du temps [microforme]
A French grammar by Antoine Oudin, published in Paris by A. de Sommaville in 1640, written for readers learning the language of its day. The pictures are printer's ornaments: a scrolled fleuron band with a central cartouche repeated twice, and an inhabited historiated initial M with foliage filling its letterforms, showing how seventeenth-century printers framed a page with black-and-white decorative blocks that a designer could borrow for headers, initials or dividers.
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