Declaration dv Roy, svr la detention de Monsieur le Prince de Condé, le premier iour de Septembre, mil six cens seize. Publiée en Parlement le septiesme dudit mois et an, le Roy y seant.
A 1616 royal declaration issued in Paris by Louis XIII of France, printed by F. Morel and P. Mettayer, concerning the detention of the Prince de Condé and published in Parliament. The pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a crowned heraldic cartouche with fleur-de-lis shield and a historiated initial showing a robed figure with a staff among foliage. A designer might take from them the compact, symmetrical authority of early seventeenth-century French heraldic and decorative woodcut.
