Au roy et à nosseigneurs de son conseil, Sire, Jean Bourgoin
A 1629 French legal factum addressed to the king and his council, printed as a legal petition or memorandum in civil procedure, with its page-opening initials carrying the pictures. The pictures are four repeated woodcut initial letters, each a large capital framed by stylised leaves, a sprig and a flower, with a plain cream paper ground that a designer could borrow for decorative capitals.
