Explication des maximes des saints sur la vie intérieure
A 1697 Paris printing of Fénelon's spiritual treatise on the saints' maxims of inner life, issued by the publishers P. Aubouin, P. Emery and C. Clousier for devout French readers of the period. Its four pictures are woodcut printers' ornaments: a horizontal band of scrolling foliage with putti and a central cartouche, a vine of flowers and leaves, and two decorative initial letters, an O framed with spiked corners and a J set in a diamond with rosettes, all printed in dark ink on cream paper, giving designers a dense repertoire of Baroque-era border and initial designs.
