Le Parfait Chasseur. Pour l'Instruction des personnes de qualité ou autres qui aiment la Chasse, pour se rendre capables de cet Exercice, apprendre aux Veneurs, Picqueurs, Fauconniers, & Valets de Chiens à servir dans les grands Equipages ... Par Mr De Selincourt
Le Parfait Chasseur is a 1683 French hunting manual by Jacques Espée de Selincourt, published in Paris by Gabriel Quinet, written for gentlemen and for huntsmen, huntsmen's assistants and hound handlers who served in great hunting households. The pictures are dense letterpress pages: a large engraved-style title set in bold display capitals over a table of contents listing chapters on stag hunting, hounds, and calling the quarry, with a faint ghosted text bleeding through the paper; a list of small game and birds set in a plain serif; and a close crop of running French text. A designer might take the strong display lettering and the layered, bleed-through texture as a model for period typography.
