L'Astrée
L'Astrée is a 1625 Paris pastoral romance by Honoré d'Urfé, with Balthasar Baro's continuation, printed by Pomeray for a courtly French readership. The pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a large initial letter with a lion mask amid scrolling foliage, and repeated horizontal strapwork friezes with a central mask, scrolls, and grotesque figures that suggest sixteenth-century decorative vocabulary for borders and headers.
