Le voyage de l'illustre seigneur et cheualier François Drach admiral d'Angleterre, alentour du monde
A 1613 Paris account of Francis Drake's voyage around the world, printed by Jean Gesselin for a French readership and sold from his shop near the Palais. The pictures are small woodcut-style devices: a heraldic coat of arms with a crested helmet, scrolls and motto banner, and an ornamental initial Q enclosing a fleshy floral motif with a cross-like top. A designer could draw on the compact, bold line work of these seventeenth-century cartouches and capital letters for heraldic or decorative borders.
