Les commentaires de Cesar
A 1652 Paris edition of Caesar's commentaries, published by Camusat and Louis de Villac and translated by Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt, with a map of ancient Gaul by Nicolas Sanson. The pictures are repeated decorative headpiece and tailpiece strips in woodcut style, each with a central grotesque mask flanked by scrolling foliage and volutes, and one with a fleur-de-lis shield between seated figures. A designer could take from them a dense, symmetrical ornamental border system suited to classical or early modern print work.
