Les dames illustres : ou par bonnes & fortes raisons, il se prouue, que le sexe feminin surpasse en toute sorte de genres le sexe masculin
A 1665 French book printed in Paris by Thomas Iolly, written by J. (Jacquette) Guillaume and intended for a general readership on the subject of women. The pictures are woodcut type ornaments and decorative borders: a fleur-de-lis cartouche flanked by putti and foliage, an ornamental initial M with entwined leaves, and a basket of fruit with flowers, all in a dense, black-line style a designer could borrow for period borders and capitals.
