Hecatongraphie : c'est à dire la description de cent figures & hystoires, cõtenas̃ plusieurs apophtegmes, prouerbes, sentences & ditz, tant des anciens, que des modernes
Hecatongraphie is a 1548 French emblem book by Gilles Corrozet, printed in Paris by Estienne Groulleau, offering a hundred moralising figures with proverbs and sayings for a general reading public. Its small woodcuts show a figure with a sword and serpent beside a town, a seated woman gesturing toward a hillside village, a man on a rocky shore, and a traveller beneath a tree; a designer could draw on their simple, economical line and uncluttered landscape settings for lessons-in-image layouts.
