Discours oeconomique, non moins vtile que recreatif : monstrant comme de cinq cens liures pour vne foys employées, l'on peult tirer par an quatre mil cinq cens liures de proffict honneste, que est le moyen de faire profier son argent /
A 1612 economic treatise printed at Rouen by Martin le Menestrier, written by Prudent Le Choyselat on household management and profitable investment for a general reading public. Both pictures are small woodcut headpieces and tailpieces of the kind used to open or close sections of text, built from scrolling acanthus leaves, a central urn or vase, and hanging drops. A designer could take from them the compact symmetrical cartouche format and the early seventeenth-century French ornamental vocabulary for borders, dividers, and emblem-style frames.
