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Manifeste de ce qui se passa dernierement aux Estats generaux, entre le clerge & le Tiers Estat.

France. Etats généraux (1614), France. Conseil d'Etat · 1615 · [n.p.], 1615 · 2 pictures

A 1615 French printed document recording the disputes between the clergy and the Third Estate at the Estates General, published without a named printer and aimed at a political readership. Its pictures are letterpress typography: a large historiated initial C with foliate ornament opening a dense columned text block, and a row of decorative cut-metal strapwork above a spaced capital heading DISCOURS, offering a designer models of early modern headpieces, drop caps and classical letterspacing.

Mettayer, Pierre, d. 1639

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