La forest de conscience contenant la chasse des princes spirituelle
A French allegorical verse treatise printed in Paris in 1516 by Michel Lenoir, aimed at readers seeking guidance on conduct and the moral life. Its woodcuts personify virtues, vices and sins as figures with scrolls and labels, set beside short French verses in black letter. A designer could take from them the bold, flat linework of early sixteenth-century woodcut, with dense hatching for cloth and foliage and figures framed in simple ruled panels.
