Histoires des Indes,
Histoires des Indes is a 1604 Lyon printed history of the Indies by Giovanni Pietro Maffei, translated into French by François de La Borie, published by Jean Pillehotte for a French-reading public. The pictures are close crops of the title page: a dense ornamental border of scrolling foliage and cherubs around a central IHS monogram with rays, above large roman capitals reading DES HISTOIRES. A designer might take from them the interplay of strapwork, acanthus scrolls and a centred emblem within a classical title layout.
