La Rochelle. Av roy tres-chrestien Lovis le Ivste
A 1634 printed tribute to King Louis XIII published in Paris by I. Dugast, held by the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, likely a dedicatory or occasional piece on the siege of La Rochelle. The four pictures are repeated printers' headpieces of a symmetrical grotesque: a central lion mask flanked by scrolls, putti, and foliage, with page numbers visible in the margins that the scans added, so they are not part of the design. A designer could take the mirrored composition, the lion-mask centrepiece, and the scrolling vegetal borders as a model for symmetrical ornament.
