Circe, tragedie mise en musique
A 1694 Paris printed libretto of the opera Circe, tragedie mise en musique, composed by Henri Desmarets and published by Christophe Ballard for musical and theatrical readers. The pictures are black woodcut-style head and tailpiece ornaments: dense scrolling foliage borders in the first two, and in the later ones a central coat of arms flanked by allegorical figures with a scale, a cornucopia and musical instruments, which a designer could take as models for classical strapwork and heraldic panel layouts.
