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Les lettres d'Estienne Pasquier, Conseiller & Advocat General du Roy à Paris : contenans plusieurs belles matieres & discours sur les affaires d'Estat de France, & touchant les guerres civiles

Pasquier, Etienne, 1529-1615 · 1619 · A Paris : Chez L. Sonnius · 37 pictures

Les lettres d'Estienne Pasquier is a 1619 French collection of letters by Étienne Pasquier, royal advocate general in Paris, published in Paris by L. Sonnius for readers of political and legal affairs. Its pictures are woodcut decorative initials, the large capital I framed in curling acanthus scrolls, grotesque masks, and fantastical beaked creatures, offering a designer historical models for ornamental letterforms and border-like framing.

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