L'histoire universelle du sieur d'Aubigné. Premiere [-troisieme] partie

Aubigné, Agrippa d', 1552-1630 · 1616 · A Maillè : Par Iean Moussat, imprimeur ordinaire dudit sieur. · 9 pictures

A 1616 French history, Agrippa d'Aubigné's L'histoire universelle, printed at Maillé by Jean Moussat, the printer to the author, and held by the John Carter Brown Library. Its pictures are repeated woodcut horizontal border strips of dense scrolling foliage, flowers, fruit and small figures, rendered in fine black line on a cream page, with a designer able to borrow their interlacing vine and acanthus rhythm for decorative bands.

Imprint 1616 · Imprint 1620

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