La vraie et ancienne orthographe françoise [microforme]
A French-language treatise on spelling published in Paris in 1609 by Etienne Simon, printed by J. Gesselin and held as a microform copy. The one picture is a hand-drawn diagram rather than an illustration: a dense tangle of looping, overlapping strokes around a central spiral, drawn in heavy black ink on pale paper. A designer might take from it the energy of a continuous single-line gesture, with loops that build outward from a tight centre.
![Picture 1 of 1 from La vraie et ancienne orthographe françoise [microforme] (1609), leaf 31](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-fre_b1888755-31-0.webp)