Dialectique de Pierre de La Ramée [microforme]

Ramus, Petrus, 1515-1572 · 1555 · Paris : A. Wechel · 7 pictures

A 1555 Paris printing by Petrus Ramus, a logic textbook in French, issued by the Wechel press for students of dialectic. The pictures are typographic ornaments: a scrolling floral headpiece with the opening words of the 'Premier Livre' section, a bold block initial B beside a stylised book-spine panel, a decorated historiated initial in a French roman typeface, and a second acanthus-scroll headpiece over 'Second Livre'. A designer could borrow the dense acanthus scrollwork and the heavy decorated capital for period-styled borders and drop caps.

Dialectique

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