Edict et declaration faicte par le Roy Charles IX. de ce nom sur la pacification des troubles de ce royaume: le XIX iour de Mars, mil cinq cens soixante deux.
A royal edict of 1563 issued by Charles IX of France on pacifying the civil troubles of the kingdom, printed in Paris by Robert Estienne for a French readership. The one picture is a woodcut decorative initial C, its letter formed by a ring of scrolling foliage with a central bloom and acanthus-like curls, a motif a designer could adapt for display capitals or ornamental frames.
