Recueil des opera
Recueil des opera is a 1687 Amsterdam printed collection of opera librettos by Lully and Quinault, edited by van den Aveele and Schoonebeek for a readership of French-language music lovers. Its pictures are small woodcut tailpieces and emblems: a bee-covered cluster of leaves on a twig, and a tree with a banner reading OVERENDO beside a fox-like animal, all in dense black line with rough, handcut texture a designer could adapt for vignettes, borders or ornamental dividers.
