Instrvction a la France sur la verité de l'histoire des Frères de la Roze-Croix
A 1623 Paris printing by Gabriel Naudé, a polemical treatise on the Rosicrucian brotherhood aimed at a French readership, published by François Julliot. The two pictures are decorated woodcut initials: a tall I framed by foliage with two figures, one a small winged putto climbing and one a bearded man, and an M surrounded by scrolling acanthus, leaf sprays and a flower. A designer could take from them the dense, interlaced vegetal framing and the figure-in-letter device typical of early seventeenth-century French type ornament.
