Le voyage de France, dressé pour l'instruction & commodité tant des François, que des estrangers
A 1639 Paris guidebook by Claude de Varennes, published by Olivier de Varennes, describing France for French readers and foreign travellers. The pictures are woodcut strapwork borders and headpieces: scrolling acanthus leaves, grotesque masks and winged putti framing a central cartouche, with a plain ornamental band at the foot. A designer could take from them a dense, symmetrical scroll-and-cartouche vocabulary for frames, dividers and decorative page edges.
