La vie de S. Athanase, patriarche d'Alexandrie : divisée en douze livres : qui comprend encore l'histoire de S. Eustathe d'Antioche, de S. Paul de Constantinople, de S. Hilaire de Poitiers, de S. Eusebe de Verceil, des Papes Jules & Libere, & de plusieurs autres Saints; avec la naissance & le progrès de l'Arianisme
A 1671 French church history of Saint Athanasius, patriarch of Alexandria, written by Godefroy Hermant and printed in Paris by P. Aubouyn for a devout readership. Its pictures are small woodcut initials and fruit and flower baskets used as page ornaments, with a designer able to borrow their dense, spiky line work and tidy basket shapes for borders and decorative panels.


















