Extraict de deux lettres, l'uns du neufiesme, l'autre du dixiesme jour du mois de janvier, envoyees de Rome par de dernier ordinaire.
A 1589 French printed news extract, issued in Paris by the printer Charles Roger, reporting letters sent from Rome in January about the Guise family and the cardinal of Guise. The pictures are small printer's ornaments: a symmetrical scrolled cartouche above the place name 'A Paris', and an ornate historiated initial N beside a black-letter text block. A designer might take from them the dense, balanced scroll work of late sixteenth-century French typography and the way a decorated capital anchors a column of text.
