Les oeuvres morales et meslées de Plutarque
A 1665 Paris edition of Plutarch's moral essays, printed by Frédéric Léonard and later owned by John Adams, aimed at readers of French ethics and classical texts. The pictures are woodcut decorated initial letters (A, N, I) with dense interlaced scrolls, grotesque masks, and foliage filling each letterform, a model for ornamental capitals and frame-like borders.
