Anatomie universelle du Corps humain, composee par A. Paré, Chirurgien ordinaire du Roy et Juré à Paris : reveue et augmentee par ledit autheur, avec I. Rostaing du Bignosc Provençal, aussi Chirurgien Juré à Paris
Ambroise Paré's Anatomie universelle du corps humain, a French surgical anatomy printed in Paris in 1561 by Jehan Le Royer for surgeons and medical readers. Its pages are dense black-letter type with large decorated initial letters built from scrolling foliage, flourishes and grotesque heads, offering a designer ideas for historic ornamental capitals and text layout.













