L'instruction dung jeune prince pour ce bien gouverner envers Dieu et le monde nouvellement imprime.
A 1518 Paris printing by Michel Le Noir of Hugues de Lannoy's advice to a young prince on governing well before God and the world, written for future rulers and their instructors. The single woodcut shows a seated, crowned ruler at a desk with a book, while two attendants stand in an arched doorway behind him, and a decorated initial letter with a dragon-like ornament sits in the text below. A designer could take its tight, hatched woodcut line, the framed architectural setting, and the compact pairing of a large image with a historiated initial as models for antique-style book illustration.
