Paradigmata et historiae morborum
A 1648 Latin medical treatise by Guillaume de Baillou, edited by Jacques Thévart, printed in Paris by Jacques Quesnel for physicians and students of practical medicine. The single picture is a letterpress decorated initial, an ornate capital S built from acanthus-like leaves and rosettes, beside a line of black-letter-style italic type, offering a designer a model for ornamental capitals and historic text-block layout.
