Le Vray point d'honneur à garder en conservant pour vivre honorablement & paisiblement avec un chacun
A 1618 French devotional-moral treatise on honourable conduct and peaceable living, written by Antoine de Balinghem and printed at Saint-Omer by C. Boscart for a general readership. The pictures here are decorative woodcut initials, with ornate capital letters I, S and N built from scrolling acanthus leaves, fleurons and foliage. A designer could take from them the dense, hand-cut ornament of early seventeenth-century printing, useful for drop caps, monograms and borders.
