Discovrs svr les moyens de bien govverner & maintenir en bonne paix vn royaume, ou autre principauté. Divisez en trois parties, assavoir, dv conseil, de la religion, & de la police que doit tenir vn prince. Contre Nicolas Machiauel Florentin ..
A 1577 French political treatise by Innocent Gentillet, printed without a named place or publisher, arguing against Machiavelli and addressed to princes on governing a kingdom. Its pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, each an ornate capital L or P set in interlaced scrollwork, leaves and grotesque faces, with small marginal catchwords in italic script; a designer could draw on their dense, symmetrical framing and the way the letterform is built from ornament.
