Edit dv Roy, portant creation de trois tresoriers receueurs generaux, ancien, alternatif, & triennal, du droit de seigneuriage, ordonné par sa Maiesté estre leué sur toutes, les matieres d'or & d'argent ouurées, hors ses monnoyes: comme aussi trois controolleurs generaux ancien, alternatif, & triennal ...
This 1642 royal edict from France, printed in Paris by S. Cramoisy, creates treasurers and controllers general to collect a seigniorage duty on worked gold and silver for the king's government. The single picture is a decorative initial letter V in a dense black ornamental frame of scrolling foliage and interlace, set beside lines of French black-letter type. A designer could take from it the scale of a heavy woodcut initial next to plain text, with its tight contrast of ornament and body copy.
