La Poétique [microforme] Tome premier
La Poétique, volume one, by Hippolyte Jules Pilet de La Mesnardière (c. 1610–1663), printed by A. de Sommaville in Paris in 1639 as a treatise on poetics for French literary readers. The pictures are not illustrations but scanned fragments: large bold printed numerals reading 4º, 44, and a page of dense letterpress columns with a decorative initial, so a designer might take from them the blunt, heavy weight of a hand-stencilled or stamped format mark against the fine texture of early French type.
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