Considerations sur les droits par lesquels la nature a reiglé les mariages
A 1648 French treatise on marriage by the Protestant theologian Moïse Amyraut, printed at Saumur by Isaac Desbordes, and written for a learned reading public. Its pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: two decorative initial letters, C and M, wrapped in scrolling foliage and grotesque figures, a band of winged putti and scrolls, and a diagram of a genealogical tree with a sun and crescent-faced figures. A designer might take from them the dense black-line woodcut vocabulary of early modern typography, with foliate initials and symmetrical ornamental bands.
