Réponse de Mr. Varillas a la critique de Mr. Burnet : sur les deux premiers tomes de l'Histoire des révolutions arrivées dans l'Europe en matiére de religion
A 1687 French polemical reply by historian Antoine Varillas to Gilbert Burnet's critique of his histories of religious upheaval in Europe, printed in Paris by Claude Barbin and later owned by John Adams. The two pictures are small typographic ornaments from the printer's stock: a tasselled cartouche with a swag of fruit and foliage, and a strip border with a lion mask flanked by fruit and vine scrolls. A designer could take from them the dense, hand-cut seventeenth-century woodblock vocabulary of swags, masks and tassels used for decorative breaks and frames.
