La rhétorique françoise ou pour principale augmentation l'on trouve les secrets de nostre langue [microforme]

Bary, René, 17e siècle · 1665 · Paris : P. Le Petit · 3 pictures

A 1665 French rhetoric treatise by René Bary, printed in Paris by P. Le Petit for readers of the French language, with a text on the secrets of French grammar and style. Its pictures are pages of letterpress typography: a dense ornamental printer's headpiece above a large Paris imprint, a decorative strip of scrollwork and rosettes above a small-capital title, and a preface opening with a historiated initial and a dropped capital V. A designer could take the heavy baroque scrollwork, cartouches and tight justified type as models for period title pages and vintage display layouts.

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