L' appareil commode en faveur des jeunes chirurgiens
A 1700 Paris surgical manual by Le Clerc, printed by the widow of Estienne Michallet for young surgeons, and the four pages shown are dense French letterpress text with large decorative initial capitals and no pictures. A designer could take from them the tight justified columns, the heavy engraved-style drop caps, and the old-style serif type with its long s and ligatures.
