Hercvle Fvrievx : tragedie
A 1639 Paris printing of a French verse tragedy, Hercule furieux, adapted from Euripides by Nicolas L'Héritier de Nouvelon and published by Toussaint Quinet. The four pictures are woodcut decorative initials with leafy borders and foliate frames, one an open-centred letter with a flower and another a letter formed from curling vine-like stems, suited to designers seeking early seventeenth-century French typographic ornament.
