Le tre-sette, ou Regles du jeu du trois-sept
A small 1778 French rulebook for the card game tre-sette, a trick-taking game of Italian origin, printed in Paris and aimed at card players. The pages are dense letterpress text in a serif face, with Roman-numeral section headings and centred running heads, and no pictures beyond the type itself. A designer could take from them the tight justified columns, framed page borders and classic eighteenth-century French book typography.
