Osman
A 1656 Paris edition of Tristan L'Hermite's tragedy Osman, published by Guillaume de Luynes, a printed literary text for readers of French classical drama. The two pictures are small printed devices: a large decorated initial M with a foliate frame and a bearded figure in its counter, and a circular printer's mark with a sun face, a plowing scene, and a motto ring reading 'Sicut Vos Non Vobis' with the initials E.G. Designers could draw on the ornamental initial and the sun-and-field emblem as compact models of early modern printer's ornament.
