Discours de la religion des anciens Romains--
A 1581 Lyon treatise by the sixteenth-century antiquarian Guillaume Du Choul on the religion of the ancient Romans, printed by G. Roville for a learned readership. Its pictures are small engraved reproductions of Roman coins, each shown as a pair of obverse and reverse with inscriptions ringing the rim, drawn in fine line with cross-hatched shading. A designer could take from them the compact roundel format, the dense ring lettering, and the stylised classical figures standing with shields, sceptres, and offerings.
