La curiosité naturelle, redigee en questions selon l'ordre alphabetique : a roven
A 1631 natural history text in French, written by Scipion Dupleix and printed in Lyon by S. Rigaud, arranged as alphabetical questions for readers learning the natural world. Its pictures are woodcut printers' ornaments: a repeating strip of scrolling foliage in black, and a large decorated initial P with leafy curls and a small animal at its base. A designer could take from them the interlaced scroll border pattern and the framed capital letter as models for historical headers, dividers and drop caps.
