Les Oeuvres morales et meslees
Les Oeuvres morales et meslees is a 1574 Paris volume printed by Vascosan, holding Plutarch's moral essays in Jacques Amyot's French translation, aimed at a French reading public. The pictures are woodcut decorative initials, each a large capital letter wrapped in dense foliage, scrollwork and grotesque heads, showing how Renaissance printers framed text with ornament a designer could adapt for display letters.
