Ioannis Dallaei De imaginibus libri IV
A Latin treatise in four books on images, by the Protestant theologian Jean Daillé, printed in 1642 at Leiden by the Elzevir press for a scholarly readership. Its pictures are small woodcut ornaments, including a fruit swag with grapes and apples under a row of castellated panels and a strapwork-and-scroll band, repeated across the pages as headpieces and tailpieces; a designer could draw on their compact, symmetrical arrangement of fruit and foliage for border or divider work.
