Le grand Timoleon de Corinthe : Tragi-comedie
A 1642 tragicomedy, Le grand Timoleon de Corinthe, by de St. Germain, printed in Paris by Touissant Quinet for a French reading public. The four pictures are woodcut decorative initial letters: a large I with foliage, a C enclosing a leafy motif, an ornament with a crown and a cherub's head, and an N with a bird and butterfly. A designer could take from them the dense, vine-filled frames and historiated capitals typical of seventeenth-century French printing.
