Reqveste presentee av Roy par Messievrs les Cardinaux, Princes, Seigneurs, & les Deputez de la ville de Paris, : & autres villes Catholiques, associez & vnis pour la deffence de la Religion Catholique Apostolique & Romaine
A 1588 French petition, printed in Lyon by Jean Pillehotte, presenting a request to King Henry III from cardinals, princes, lords and deputies of Paris and other Catholic towns united in defence of the Catholic faith. The pictures are typographic and decorative: a printer's ornament of scrolling foliage around a square of interlace, a woodcut initial S flanked by birds among foliage, and a marbled endpaper with a bookplate showing a castle and a shield. A designer might take the cut-paper style foliage corners, the framed woodcut initial, and the swirling marbled pattern as period ornament references.
