L'Astrée
L'Astrée is a seventeenth-century French pastoral romance by Honoré d'Urfé, here in an edition completed by Balthasar Baro, printed in Paris by Pomeray in 1625 for a courtly reading public. The four pictures are decorated historiated initials, woodcut capitals with interlaced foliage, tulips, scrolls and a lion's head, which a designer could use as models for display letters and ornamental frames.
