[Arrests dv Conseil d'estat]

France.Conseil d'Etat., France. Conseil d'Etat · 1646 · Paris : S. Cramoisy, 1646 · 5 pictures

A 1646 Paris printing of royal Council of State decrees, issued by the publisher S. Cramoisy for the French government and its officials. The four pictures are repeated printed device blocks: two shield-and-crown armorial emblems and two decorated initial S letters set in foliage, all in heavy black relief on cream paper. A designer could take from them the dense, crowded woodcut ornament of seventeenth-century French printers, with its interlocking leaves, crowns and fleurs-de-lis.

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