Les Vies des hommes illustres, grecs et romains, comparées l'une avec l'autre
Amyot's French translation of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, printed in Paris by Vascosan in 1567 for a French reading public. The pictures are woodcut decorative initials and a headpiece, built from scrolling acanthus, rosettes and grotesque figures in ornate Renaissance style, which a designer could adapt for historical borders, drop caps and letterforms.
