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Exhortation avx Francois povr vivre en concorde, et iovir dv bien de la paix

Leroy, Louis, d. 1577 · 1570 · Paris, I. du Puis · 14 pictures

This 1570 Paris pamphlet by Louis Leroy, printed by I. du Puis, urges the French to live in concord and enjoy peace, and its tailpieces are woodcut horizontal ornament bands. The four pictures show strips of scrolling foliage, fruit clusters, cherubs and lion masks, a repeated, symmetrical border vocabulary a designer could adapt for dividers, headers or frames.

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