Devx livres des venins, ausquels il est amplement discouru des bestes venimeuses, theriaques, poisons
A 1568 French treatise on venomous animals, antidotes and poisons by the physician-poet Jacques Grévin, printed in Antwerp by Christophe Plantin for a learned readership. The pictures are small woodcut decorative initials, each a large letter framed by grotesque figures, foliage, and scrollwork, offering a designer ready models for ornamental capitals and Renaissance border motifs.
