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Discovrs sur le suiect de la mort du seigneur Struard, Escossois, decapité deuant le Chasteau du Louure à Paris. Le Lundy 27. de Februier dernier.

1617 · Paris : A. du Brueil, 1617 · 2 pictures

A Paris pamphlet printed in 1617 by A. du Brueil, in French, recounting the beheading of the Scottish lord Struard before the Louvre. The two pictures are a large decorated initial D with a figure and vine scroll beside French text, and a small woodcut head of a bewigged man flanked by fruit and foliage ornaments, useful to a designer for early modern French type, woodcut borders and historical ornament.

Struard

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