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Tableau des passions humaines, de leurs causes, et leurs effets

Coeffeteau, Nicolas, évèque, 1574-1623 · 1632 · Paris : M. Henault · 9 pictures

A French moral treatise on the human passions, their causes and effects, written by the bishop Nicolas Coeffeteau and printed in Paris in 1632 by M. Henault for a general reading public. Its pictures are four small woodcut initial letters C, each a stylised figure in a roundel ringed with leafy flowers and foliage, showing a designer how a decorative letter frame can hold a single emotive figure.

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