Réponse à une critique satyrique intitulée l'apotheose du Dictionnaire de l'Academie françoise [microforme]

Mallement, Claude, seigneur de Messange, 1653-1723 · 1696 · Paris : P. Ballard · 6 pictures

A 1696 Paris pamphlet by Claude Mallement, seigneur de Messange, printed by P. Ballard, replying to a satire on the Académie française's dictionary, and preserved here as a microfilm copy. Its pictures are small black woodcut ornaments, a heart-shaped scrollwork cartouche, a footed urn with volutes, a leafy foliage border, and a chapter-opening headpiece with a large drop capital, offering designers period-style decorative units for borders, dividers and initials.

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