Les Oeuvres morales et meslees
Les Oeuvres morales et meslees is a 1574 Paris edition of Plutarch's moral essays in Jacques Amyot's French translation, printed by Vascosan for French readers of the period. The four pictures are printed decorative initial letters, an I, L, I and I, built from interlaced acanthus scrolls, leaves and rosette roundels inside a framing ornament. A designer could take from them the strong black-line vine-and-scroll structure of Renaissance capital letters for borders, monograms and display type.
