Briefve methode pour se conserver en temps de peste. Contenant la preservation & curation de la peste, la sedation de ses accidents ;...dédiée à Messieurs de la Ville d'Agen
A 1629 French plague-prevention treatise by Pierre Bienassis, printed at Toulouse by Raimond Colomiez and dedicated to the city officials of Agen. The single picture is a small printer's ornament: a woman's face framed by laurel leaves, with scrolled volutes and a swag of leaf-shaped beads below. A designer could take from it a compact, symmetrical emblem for a classical, early-modern heading or vignette.
