Edict du Roy sur la pacification des troubles de ce royaume.
A royal French edict printed in Paris in 1576 by the printer Frédéric Morel, a legal and state document for public readers of the period. Its pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a shield with fleurs-de-lis under a crown ringed by scrollwork, a grotesque ram-headed frieze, a foliate initial H with a face, and a tree device with banners reading Omnis arbor bona. A designer could draw on their dense interlace, grotesque masks and emblematic banners for period-style borders and monograms.
