Les antiqvitez croniqves et singvlaritez de Paris, ville capitalle du royaume de France : auec les fondations & bastiments des lieux, les sepulchres & epitaphes des princes, princesses, & autres personnes illustres
A 1586 Paris guidebook by Gilles Corrozet, issued by Nicolas Bonfons, describing the city's antiquities, monuments and royal tombs for readers interested in France's history. Its woodcut plates show standing stone effigies of queens and princesses in tall niches, with each figure's crown, drapery and carved pedestal rendered in fine parallel lines, offering a designer examples of Gothic sculptural costume and architectural framing.
