Emblemes d'Alciat : de nouueau trãslatez en frãçois, vers pour vers iouxte les latins : ordonnez en lieux cõmuns, auec briefues expositions & figures nouuelles appropriées aux derniers emblemes
An emblem book of 1549 printed in Lyon by Guillaume Roville, a French verse translation of Andrea Alciati's Latin emblems with brief explanations and new woodcuts for readers of French. Each page frames a small woodcut with an ornate border, a motto above and verse below. The woodcuts show animals, plants and allegorical scenes such as an elephant, a laurel tree, a stork feeding its parents, and a ship at sea, which a designer could adapt as compact framed vignettes with motto-and-verse layouts.
