Manifeste de ce qui se passa dernierement aux Estats generaux, entre le clerge & le Tiers Estat : Congregamini super montes Samariae, et videte insanias multas in medio eius, & calumniam patientes in penetralibus eius. Amos. 3
A 1615 French political pamphlet, printed by an unnamed publisher, setting out the dispute between the clergy and the Third Estate at the Estates General for a French readership. Its two pictures are small decorative woodcut initials: one a letter C framed by a ring of leafy foliage around a central flower bud, the other a letter V filled with scrolling foliage, a small cat's face, and spiral volutes at its base. A designer could take from them the dense, hand-cut vine and scroll framing typical of early seventeenth-century French printing.
