La morale chrestienne à Monsieur de Villarnoul
A 1652 French Protestant treatise on Christian ethics by Moïse Amyraut, printed in Saumur by Isaac Desbordes and written for a single named reader, Monsieur de Villarnoul. The two pictures are small woodcut ornaments, a basket of fruit and leaves and a large decorated initial S set among flowers and foliage, typical of seventeenth-century French printers' decoration. A designer could take from them the compact, hand-cut line and dense black-and-white pattern of early modern type ornament.
