Recueil de l'origine de la langue et poesie francoise, ryme et romans... [microforme]
Claude Fauchet's 1581 Paris treatise on the origins of the French language and poetry, printed by Mamert Patisson, is a scholarly work on early French literature and verse for readers of its day. Its pictures are letterpress ornaments: a foliate headpiece, a large decorated initial L with scrollwork, a historiated capital E above dense black-letter text, and a block-style B, showing how ornamental initials and dense type set a page.
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