Le vray discours des derniers propos memorables et trepas du feu roy de France de tresbonne memoire Charles neusieme
A 1574 French account printed at Louvain by Rogier Velpius, recounting the final words and death of King Charles IX of France for a readership of contemporary Francophone readers. The pictures are black woodcut-style printer's ornaments: a symmetrical star-shaped fleuron, a tapering block of repeated ornamental tiles, and a historiated initial S showing two figures beside a large letter. A designer could take from them the interlocking strapwork rhythm of early modern type ornament and the compact figure-in-initial format.
