Histoire admirable a la posterite des faits et gestes de Henry de Valois. Comparez en tous poincts auec ceux de Loys Faineant: & la miserable fin de l'vn & de l'vn & de l'autre. Auec vn nouueau & fatal Anagramme du nom dudict Henry de Valois. [vignette].

Des Hayes, Pierre, printer · 1589 · A Paris : Chez Pierre des-Hayes demeurant en la rüe du bon Puys à l'escreuice, 1589. Auec permission. · 1 picture

A 1589 Paris pamphlet printed by Pierre des Hayes, a polemical history comparing the reign and downfall of Henry III of France with that of Louis V. The picture is a decorative historiated initial E in black-letter type, with a figure in a long robe standing among scrolling foliage and a small animal at the base. A designer could draw on its dense, interlaced letterform, with figure and ornament packed inside the capital.

France -- History -- Louis V, 966-987 · France -- History -- Henry III, 1574-1589

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