Declaration Dv Roy Svr Le Svbiect Des Novveavx remuements de son Royaume.
A 1617 royal declaration issued by Louis XIII of France, printed in Paris by Fédéric Morel and Pierre Mettayer, printers to the king, addressing unrest among the Huguenots. The picture is a large decorated initial B in woodcut, its letter filled with scrolling acanthus foliage, grotesque faces, and a small figure seated within the bowl. A designer could take from it the dense, tangled leaf-and-scroll ornament of early seventeenth-century French printing, useful for historical borders, capital letters, and vine-work patterns.
