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L'inscription faicte sur les principales actions du tres-chrestien & tres-victorieux Henry IIII : roy de France & de Navarre.

Matthieu, Pierre,1563-1621., Matthieu, Pierre, 1563-1621 · 1609 · Paris : Chez Pierre Ramier, 1609 · 1 picture

A 1609 Paris printing by Pierre Matthieu (1563-1621) celebrating Henry IV, King of France and Navarre, a royal commemorative text aimed at courtly and learned readers. The single picture is a small printer's ornament, a symmetrical black cartouche of scrolls, curls and foliate knots on cream paper, useful to a designer for a compact decorative device or vignette in historical typography.

Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610

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