Les questions militaires
A 1617 military treatise on the art of war, written by Du Praissac and published in Paris by the widow of M. Guillemot and S. Thiboust for officers and students of fortification and tactics. The pictures are small woodcut decorative initials, a large C framing a central figure in a helmet with winged or flanking motifs, and a crowned historiated letter with scrolling foliage, all in heavy black-and-cream line that a designer could borrow for period headers, drop caps, or emblematic frames.
