Le romant des chevaliers de la gloire, : contenant plvsievrs ... aduentures des princes ... qui parurent aux courses faictes à la Place royale pour la feste des alliances de France & d'Espagne. Avec la description de levrs entrees, equipages, habits, machines, deuises, armes & blasons de leurs maisons.
A 1612 Paris romance by François de Rosset recounting knights' tournament adventures at the Place Royale, celebrating the Franco-Spanish royal marriage alliance, printed by the widow of Pierre Bertaud. The four pictures are historiated initial letters, each a large L framed by dense scrolling foliage, grotesque masks and curling acanthus, rendered in bold black woodcut with a cream paper ground; a designer could draw on their ornamental frames and tight interlace for decorative borders and capitals.
