Les Vies des hommes illustres, grecs et romains, comparées l'une avec l'autre
A 1567 Paris printing of Plutarch's parallel lives, translated into French by Jacques Amyot and published by Vascosan for a French readership. The pictures are small woodcut decorative initials and head-pieces built from scrolling foliage, cherubs and grotesque figures, which suggest ornamental borders and letterforms for a designer working with historic Renaissance type ornament.
