La vraye histoire comiqve de Francion
A 1646 French comic novel, La vraye histoire comique de Francion by Charles Sorel, printed in Rouen by D. Ferrand for a general reading public. The pictures are four small woodcut headpiece or tailpiece bands of leafy scrolls, flowers and birds in repeating horizontal panels, with page numbers in the corners. A designer could take from them a compact border strip pattern of stylised foliage and birds suited to period ornament.
