Edict de pacification, faict par le roy pour mettre fin aux troubles de son royaume, & faire desormais viure tous ses subiects en bonne paix, vnion & concorde, soubs son obeissance.
A royal edict of Henry III of France, printed in Paris in 1578 by Frédéric Morel, setting terms for peace between Catholics and Huguenots. The three pictures are printer's ornaments: a large woodcut initial H with foliage and a grotesque mask, a foliate border strip with scrolling leaves and small heads, and an emblem of a tree bearing a motto ribbon reading Omnis arbor bona. A designer might take from them the dense, carved vegetal ornament typical of sixteenth-century French print, with its interlaced scrolls and banners.
