Le putanisme d'Amsterdam : livre contenant les tours & les ruses dont se servent les putains & les maquereles, comme aussi leur maniere de vivre, leur croyances erronées, & en general toutes les choses qui sont en pratique parmy ces donzeles
This 1681 French-language book, published in Amsterdam under the name Elie Jogchemse de Rhin but attributed to Jan Bouman, is an exposé of prostitution in that city, describing the tricks, customs and beliefs of prostitutes and their pimps. The two pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a dense black floral cartouche with scrolls and rosettes, and a decorated initial C enclosing a winged griffin or dragon among foliage. A designer might take from them the heavy, high-contrast black ornament of late seventeenth-century Dutch printing, useful for bold decorative borders, capital letters and emblem-style motifs.
