Traite' du poëme epique
A 1675 Paris treatise on epic poetry by René Le Bossu, printed by Michel Le Petit for scholars and readers of classical literature. Its pictures are small woodcut letter blocks, each a black diamond-framed panel with a single capital in a scalloped white field and hatched ground, which suggests a designer could borrow the lozenge-and-initial device for monograms, seals or stamp-like labels.
