Inventaire general de l'histoire de France. : depuis Pharamond iusques à Lovys XIII. à present regnant. Illustré par la conference de l'Eglise & de l'Empire.
This is a 1619 French historical inventory of French kings from Pharamond to Louis XIII, written by Jean de Serres and printed in Geneva by Pierre Aubert for readers of French history. The pictures are small printed decorative initials and headpieces: a V with a lion mask and dogs, a branch-scrolled I, an M with urns and garlands, and a scrolled band with a face at its centre. A designer could take from them the dense, symmetrical woodcut ornament of early seventeenth-century French printing, with grotesque masks, foliage scrolls and framed capital letters.
