Melvsine
A 1610 printed edition of the Mélusine romance by Jean d'Arras, issued by the Troyes printer Nicolas Oudot for a popular reading public. The four pictures are repeated woodcut decorated initial letters, an L built from interlaced ornament, with a grotesque figure at left and a horned face inside the letter. A designer could take from them the dense, knotted black-line style of early modern printers' ornament, useful for borders, drop caps and folk-woodcut texture.
