Le caractère de l'honneste-homme : morale Dédié au roy, par M. l'abbé de Gérard
A French moral treatise on the honest gentleman, written by Armand de Gérard, the abbé who dedicated it to the king, and printed in Paris by A. Auroy in 1688 for courtly readers. The pictures are decorative woodcut friezes of scrolling acanthus, grotesque masks, cherubs and fantastic beasts, framing a central ornament, which a designer could adapt for horizontal borders, headers or panel dividers.
