Edict dv Roy, portant creation dans le ressort des Chambres des Comptes de Paris & Rouen, d'vn conseiller receueur general des consignations des deniers procedans des debets de quittances, deues par les receueurs & payeurs des rentes assignées sue le sel, aydes, tailles & receptes generales.
This is a 1627 royal edict printed in Paris by P. Mettayer, A. Estienne and C. Preuost, concerning the creation of a receiver general of consignments for the Chambers of Accounts of Paris and Rouen, a legal and financial administrative text. The single picture is a large ornamental decorated initial S, its curling foliage and scrollwork filling a square block beside the columns of French type. A designer could take from it a dense, letterpress-era initial with interlaced acanthus-like tendrils and strong black-on-white contrast.
