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Les Oeuvres morales et meslees

Plutarch, Amyot, Jacques, 1513-1593 · 1574 · Paris, Vascosan · 18 pictures

Les Oeuvres morales et meslees is a 1574 French edition of Plutarch's moral essays, translated by Jacques Amyot and printed in Paris by Vascosan for a French-reading audience. The four pictures are woodcut decorated initial letters, each a large capital built from interlaced foliage, scrollwork, and grotesque faces or figures filling the letter's body.

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