Le iardinier françois, qvi enseigne a cultiuer les arbres & herbes potageres. Auec la maniere de conseruer les fruits & faire toutes sortes de confitures, conserues, & massepans
A 1671 French gardening manual by Nicolas de Bonnefons, published in Paris by J. Laisne, teaching readers how to grow trees and vegetables and how to preserve fruit and make jams, confections and marzipan. The single picture is a decorative woodcut initial M framed by leafy foliage, with dense black ink and rough, irregular edges. A designer might take from it a model for a foliate letter or a historic drop-cap built from interlaced leaves.
