Les venganges de suresne: comedie
A 1700 Paris printing by Pierre Ribou of a comedy by Florent-Carton Dancourt, a librettist of the period, issued as an opera text. The pictures are woodcut and wood-engraved printers' ornaments: a floral heart-shaped cluster, a strip of scrolling foliage with tulips and a flower basket, a vase of blossoms, and a interlaced cross-shaped rosette. A designer could take from them the dense, symmetrical botanical vocabulary of early eighteenth-century French ornament, suited to borders, headpieces and tailpieces.
