Genealogie et la fin des Huguenaux, & descouverte du Calvinisme : où est sommairemet descrite l'histoire des troubles excitez en France parlesdits Huguenaux, iusques à present
A 1573 French polemical history of the Huguenots and Calvinism by Gabriel de Saconay, printed in Lyon by Benoist Rigaud for a readership concerned with the French religious wars. The four pictures are decorative woodcut initials: a large ornamental L with interlaced scrollwork, a circular C filled with foliage, and two historiated letters, one P beside a figure and one I with a seated child-like figure among vines. A designer could take from them the dense, hand-cut strapwork and foliate framing typical of sixteenth-century French printing.
