Trois discours nouveaux et curieux...trad. J. Martin
Trois discours nouveaux et curieux is a 1647 French translation by J. Martin of works by Luigi Cornaro, printed in Paris by G. Pousier for a French reading public. The two pictures are plain text pages opening with a dedicatory address to 'Monseigneur', set in roman and italic type with a large decorated initial M framed by foliage and a leafy ornamental border. A designer might take the large foliate woodcut initial and the dense, justified italic setting as models for historical letterpress display.
