Conférence de Ruel, 1649
A 1649 French printed pamphlet, the Conférence de Ruel, published in Paris by an unnamed printer and held by the University of Ottawa; the four pictures are historiated and ornamental initial letters (I, L, M, A) cut as woodblock borders. The letters are built from interlacing foliage, scrolls, flowers, and a grotesque face, so a designer could draw on their dense black-and-white woodcut vocabulary for decorative capitals and borders.
