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Les oevvres de Brvscambille : contenant ses fantasies, imaginations, paradoxes, & autres discours comiques : le tout nouuellement tiré de l'escarcelle de ses imaginations

Bruscambille, 16th cent · 1634 · A Lyon : Pour Clavde Chastellard · 3 pictures

A comic miscellany of fantasies, paradoxes and jests by the Parisian performer Bruscambille, printed in Lyon in 1634 by Claude Chastellard for a general reading public. The pictures are small woodcut decorative initials and ornaments, one a grotesque figure within a letter L, another a winged head flanked by foliage scrolls, and the third a black-letter text opening with a historiated initial, offering designers cues in historical type ornament and pen-era letterforms.

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