Les oeuvres d'Ovide
A 1697 French edition of Ovid's collected works, published in Lyon by Horace Molin and once owned by John Adams, the American statesman. Its pictures are small woodcut headpieces with a symmetrical design: a central basket heaped with fruit and flowers flanked by winged birds and scrolling foliage, printed in dark ink on cream paper, with a page number above one example. A designer might take from them a balanced, centred ornament model for a decorative band, border, or headpiece.
