The historie of the civill warres of France
A 1647 London edition of Arrigo Caterino Davila's history of the French civil wars, translated from the Italian, printed by R. Raworth and sold by W. Lee, D. Pakeman and G. Bedell in Fleet Street, and once owned by John Adams. The pictures are repeated woodcut ornamental border strips of flowers, urns, fruit and interlacing scrollwork, which suit designers seeking historical Baroque-era decorative bands and framing motifs.
