Io. Bodini Andegavensis De republica libri sex
Jean Bodin's Latin treatise on the state, printed in Paris in 1586 by Jacques Du Puys for a scholarly readership of political thinkers and lawyers. The pictures are woodcut decorative initials and a printed ornamental headpiece, with the large R repeated in several framed variants, and a designer might take from them the dense interlace of foliage, grotesques and strapwork framing a single letter.
