Le Prince

Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, seigneur de, 1597-1654 · 1677 · Paris : Louis Billaine · 8 pictures

Le Prince is a 1677 Paris printed work by Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, published by Louis Billaine and concerned with King Louis XIII of France. The four pictures are small woodcut decorative initials, a large letter M and an I, each framed by leafy stems and foliage in a dense black-and-white style; a designer might take from them the idea of a plant-bordered capital letter set within a square block.

Louis XIII, roi de France, 1601-1643 · Rois et souverains

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