L'Astrée

Urfé, Honoré d', 1567-1625, Baro, Balthasar, 1600-1650 · 1625 · Paris, Pomeray · 42 pictures

L'Astrée is a seventeenth-century French pastoral romance by Honoré d'Urfé, with continuation by Balthasar Baro, printed in Paris by Pomeray in 1625 for a courtly reading public. The pictures are decorated woodcut initial letters: a large I framed by leafy tulip-like foliage in several near-identical versions, and an A flanked by two figures in profile with flowers above, which a designer could use for historic display capitals and botanical ornament.

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