Lettre escrite de Cayenne; contenant ce qui s'est passé en la descente des François, & leur establissement en l'Amerique
A 1653 French pamphlet printed in Paris by Guillaume de Luyne, a bookseller on the Palais, giving an account of the French landing and settlement at Cayenne in America, held by the John Carter Brown Library. The two pictures are small woodcut ornaments, a decorative strapwork headpiece with a central oval medallion and foliage, and a tailpiece of a footed bowl overflowing with fruit and leaves. A designer could draw on their dense black-line carving, symmetrical borders and compact fruit-basket motif for ornament.
