Les oevvres morales et politiqves de Messire François Bacon
A 1633 Paris edition of Francis Bacon's moral and political works, translated into French by Jean Baudoin and printed by P. Rocolet and F. Targa for a French reading public. Its pictures are small woodcut decorative initials, ornamental capital letters framed with foliage, grotesque figures, and animals, useful to a designer looking for historic letterform frames and border ornament.
