Le Vray practicien françois, ..
A 1638 French legal manual by Vincent Tagereau, published in Paris by M. Henault, setting out civil and criminal court procedure for lawyers and practitioners. The four pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, two of them a C with leafy foliage, one an A with flowers and birds, and one an I wrapped in vines, showing how seventeenth-century printers built ornament around capitals and what a designer can borrow for display lettering.
