Histoire du lutheranisme
Histoire du lutheranisme is a 1681 French church history by the Jesuit Louis Maimbourg, a Reformation account of Martin Luther and Lutheranism printed in Paris and held at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. The pictures are small woodcut-style printer's ornaments: a leafy fleur-de-lis head, a open book above a shield with a monogram, a pair of masks joined by a rope, and a decorated initial I with scrolling acanthus. A designer could take from them the dense, symmetrical scrollwork and compact ornament suited to seventeenth-century title pages and chapter openings.
