Nouvelles morales en suite de celles de Cervantes ..
A 1621 Paris printing by Toussainct du Bray of moral tales continuing Cervantes, translated by Jean Baudoin from Diego de Agreda y Vargas. The pictures are small woodcut headpiece and tailpiece ornaments of griffin-like beasts flanking a central figure amid scrolls, leaves and berries, printed in black on cream paper. A designer could take the symmetrical strapwork borders and mirrored beast motifs as a model for decorative bands and dividers.
