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La doctrine des moevrs, tiree de la philosophie des stoiques, representee en cent tableavx et expliqvee en cent discovrs pour l'instruction de la ieunesse

Gomberville, M. Le Roy (Marin Le Roy), sieur de, 1600-1674, Daret, Pierre, 1604-1678 · 1646 · Paris, Impr. de L. Sevestre · 208 pictures

La doctrine des moevrs, a 1646 Paris moral treatise by Marin Le Roy de Gomberville with plates by Pierre Daret, meant to teach young readers Stoic ethics through a hundred pictures. The pictures are historiated woodcut initials, each a large letter V or L framed by foliage, with small figures of soldiers, a seated man, and two people clasping hands, and a designer could borrow their dense, symmetrical ornament for decorative capitals.

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