L'usage de la glace, de la neige et du froid
A 1676 medical treatise printed at Lyon by Antoine Cellier fils, written by the 17th-century author Pierre Barra on the therapeutic use of ice, snow and cold, aimed at physicians and patients. The two pictures are small identical printer's ornaments, a four-armed symmetrical rosette of scrolling foliate forms radiating from a central cross, in dense speckled black ink on cream paper. A designer could draw on them for a compact radial emblem or a border cornerpiece with an antique, hand-cut feel.
